U+237D "⍽" Shouldered Open Box Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+237D "⍽" Shouldered Open Box is a graphic symbol used primarily in technical notation to represent a missing or unknown character, often in contexts where a placeholder is needed to indicate an absence of data or a printing gap. It features a rectangular shape with indentations on its sides, giving it a "shouldered" appearance, and is part of the Unicode block for miscellaneous technical symbols. This character is particularly associated with APL (A Programming Language), where it serves as a representation for empty numeric arrays or placeholders in array-based computations.
General Properties
Code Point
U+237D
Name
Shouldered Open Box
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
⍽
HTML Hex Encoding
⍽
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x8D 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding
0x237D
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000237D
C/C++/Java Escape
\u237d
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Common