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Glyph for U+2418
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U+2418 Symbol for Cancel

U+2418 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+2400 to U+243F Control Pictures in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+2418 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

In telecommunication, the term cancel character has the following meanings:

  1. A control character ("CAN", "Cancel", U+0018, or ^X) used to indicate that the data with which it is associated are in error or are to be disregarded. Exact meaning can depend on protocol. For example:
    • In some journalistic text transmission formats, it signifies that the preceding word should be deleted; it is sometimes called "Kill Word" ("KW") in this context.
    • In some Videotex formats, it stops any running macros. In others, it clears the current line after the cursor position (compare EL).
  2. A control character ("CCH", "Cancel Character", U+0094, or ESC T) used to erase the previous character. This character was created as an unambiguous alternative to the much more common backspace character ("BS", U+0008), which has a now mostly obsolete alternative function of causing the following character to be superimposed on the preceding one.

Representations

System Representation
9240
UTF-8 E2 90 98
UTF-16 24 18
UTF-32 00 00 24 18
URL-Quoted %E2%90%98
HTML hex reference ␘
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ␘

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name SYMBOL FOR CANCEL
Unicode 1 Name GRAPHIC FOR CANCEL
Block Control Pictures
General Category Other Symbol
Script Common
Bidirectional Category Other Neutral
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+2418 Symbol for Cancel
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+2418 Symbol for Cancel
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+2418 Symbol for Cancel
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+2418 Symbol for Cancel
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+2418 Symbol for Cancel
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+2418 Symbol for Cancel
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+2418 Symbol for Cancel
Case Folding Glyph for U+2418 Symbol for Cancel
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+2418 Symbol for Cancel
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+2418 Symbol for Cancel
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+2418 Symbol for Cancel
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Other
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Other
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+2418 Symbol for Cancel
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+2418 Symbol for Cancel
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation U