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Glyph for U+2676
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U+2676 Recycling Symbol for Type-4 Plastics

U+2676 was added in Unicode version 3.2 in 2002. It belongs to the block U+2600 to U+26FF Miscellaneous Symbols 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 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+2676 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Low-density polyethylene (LDPE) is a thermoplastic made from the monomer ethylene. It was the first grade of polyethylene, produced in 1933 by Dr John C. Swallow and M.W Perrin who were working for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) using a high pressure process via free radical polymerization. Its manufacture employs the same method today. The EPA estimates 5.7% of LDPE (resin identification code 4) is recycled in the United States. Despite competition from more modern polymers, LDPE continues to be an important plastic grade. In 2013 the worldwide LDPE market reached a volume of about US$33 billion.

Despite its designation with the recycling symbol, it cannot be as commonly recycled as No. 1 (polyethylene terephthalate) or 2 plastics (high-density polyethylene).

Representations

System Representation
Nº 9846
UTF-8 E2 99 B6
UTF-16 26 76
UTF-32 00 00 26 76
URL-Quoted %E2%99%B6
HTML hex reference ♶
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ♶
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 81 37 AE 30

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 3.2 (2002)
Unicode Name (na) RECYCLING SYMBOL FOR TYPE-4 PLASTICS
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
General Category (gc) Other Symbol
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+2676 Recycling Symbol for Type-4 Plastics
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+2676 Recycling Symbol for Type-4 Plastics
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+2676 Recycling Symbol for Type-4 Plastics
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+2676 Recycling Symbol for Type-4 Plastics
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+2676 Recycling Symbol for Type-4 Plastics
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+2676 Recycling Symbol for Type-4 Plastics
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+2676 Recycling Symbol for Type-4 Plastics
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+2676 Recycling Symbol for Type-4 Plastics
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✘
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✔
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+2676 Recycling Symbol for Type-4 Plastics
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✘
ID Start (IDS) ✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+2676 Recycling Symbol for Type-4 Plastics
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+2676 Recycling Symbol for Type-4 Plastics
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✔
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Other
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✘
XID Start (XIDS) ✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+2676 Recycling Symbol for Type-4 Plastics
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+2676 Recycling Symbol for Type-4 Plastics
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U