U+238B Broken Circle with Northwest Arrow
U+238B was added in Unicode version 3.0 in 1999. It belongs to the block Miscellaneous Technical in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as escape.
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. The word that U+238B forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
On computer keyboards, the Esc key Esc (named Escape key in the international standard series ISO/IEC 9995) is a key used to generate the escape character (which can be represented as ASCII code 27 in decimal, Unicode U+001B, or Ctrl+[). The escape character, when sent from the keyboard to a computer, often is interpreted by software as "stop", "cancel" or "exit", and when sent from the computer to an external device (including many printers since the 1980s, computer terminals and Linux consoles, for example) marks the beginning of an escape sequence to specify operating modes or characteristics generally.
It is now generally placed at the top left corner of the keyboard, a convention dating at least to the original IBM PC keyboard, though the key itself originated decades earlier with teletypewriters.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 9099 |
| UTF-8 | E2 8E 8B |
| UTF-16 | 23 8B |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 23 8B |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%8E%8B |
| HTML hex reference | ⎋ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ⎋ |
| alias | escape |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 36 F5 33 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 3.0 (1999) | |
| BROKEN CIRCLE WITH NORTHWEST ARROW | |
| — | |
| Miscellaneous Technical | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Broken Circle with Northwest Arrow | |
| ✘ | |
| Broken Circle with Northwest Arrow | |
| Broken Circle with Northwest Arrow | |
| ✘ | |
| Broken Circle with Northwest Arrow | |
| Broken Circle with Northwest Arrow | |
| Broken Circle with Northwest Arrow | |
| Broken Circle with Northwest Arrow | |
| Broken Circle with Northwest Arrow | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Broken Circle with Northwest Arrow | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Broken Circle with Northwest Arrow | |
| Yes | |
| Broken Circle with Northwest Arrow | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
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| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Broken Circle with Northwest Arrow | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Broken Circle with Northwest Arrow | |
| U |