This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+1F5AD offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A tape drive is a data storage device that reads and writes data on a magnetic tape. Magnetic-tape data storage is typically used for offline, archival data storage. Tape media generally has a favorable unit cost and long archival stability.
A tape drive provides sequential access storage, unlike a hard disk drive, which provides direct access storage. A disk drive can move to any position on the disk in a few milliseconds, but a tape drive must physically wind tape between reels to read any one particular piece of data. As a result, tape drives have very large average access times. However, tape drives can stream data very quickly off a tape when the required position has been reached. For example, as of 2017 Linear Tape-Open (LTO) supports continuous data transfer rates of up to 360 MB/s, a rate comparable to hard disk drives.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
128429
UTF-8
F0 9F 96 AD
UTF-16
D8 3D DD AD
UTF-32
00 01 F5 AD
URL-Quoted
%F0%9F%96%AD
HTML hex reference
🖭
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
ðŸ–
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
94 39 F4 33
RFC 5137
\u'1F5AD'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\U0001F5AD
C and C++
\U0001F5AD
C#
\U0001F5AD
CSS
\01F5AD
Excel
=UNICHAR(128429)
Go
\U0001F5AD
JavaScript
\uD83D\uDDAD
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{1f5ad}
JSON
\uD83D\uDDAD
Java
\uD83D\uDDAD
Lua
\u{1F5AD}
Matlab
char(128429)
Perl
"\x{1F5AD}"
PHP
\u{1f5ad}
PostgreSQL
U&'\+01F5AD'
PowerShell
`u{1F5AD}
Python
\U0001F5AD
Ruby
\u{1f5ad}
Rust
\u{1f5ad}
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