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Glyph for U+FFFE
Source: Noto Sans

U+FFFE Noncharacter *

U+FFFE was added to Unicode in version 2.0 (1996). It belongs to the block U+FFF0 to U+FFFF Specials in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Unassigned and is mainly used in the Unknown script.

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

This is a so-called “noncharacter”, one of 66 in Unicode. These codepoints are reserved solely for internal use. For further information, see Unicode’s FAQ on noncharacters.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 65534
UTF-8 EF BF BE
UTF-16 FF FE
UTF-32 00 00 FF FE
URL-Quoted %EF%BF%BE
HTML hex reference 
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake �

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 2.0 (1996)
Unicode Name —
Unicode 1 Name —
General Category Unassigned
Script Unknown
Bidirectional Category Boundary Neutral
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+FFFE Noncharacter*
Lowercase ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+FFFE Noncharacter*
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+FFFE Noncharacter*
Uppercase ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+FFFE Noncharacter*
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+FFFE Noncharacter*
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+FFFE Noncharacter*
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+FFFE Noncharacter*
Case Folding Glyph for U+FFFE Noncharacter*
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 —
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base ✘
Grapheme Extend ✘
Grapheme Link ✘
Hex Digit ✘
Hyphen ✘
ID Continue ✘
ID Start ✘
IDS Binary Operator ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and ✘
Ideographic ✘
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name —
Join Control ✘
Logical Order Exception ✘
Math ✘
Noncharacter Code Point ✔
NFC Quick Check 1
NFD Quick Check 1
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+FFFE Noncharacter*
NFKC Quick Check 1
NFKD Quick Check 1
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 Mirrored Glyph —
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 Unknown
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+FFFE Noncharacter*
Script Extension Unknown
Vertical Orientation R