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Glyph for U+0009
Source: Noto Sans Symbols2

U+0009 Character Tabulation *

U+0009 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+0000 to U+007F Basic Latin in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Control and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as CHARACTER TABULATION, horizontal tabulation (HT) and tab.

The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Segment Separator. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+0009 offers a line break opportunity after its position. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The tab key Tab ↹ (abbreviation of tabulator key or tabular key) on a keyboard is used to advance the cursor to the next tab stop.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 9
UTF-8 09
UTF-16 00 09
UTF-32 00 00 00 09
URL-Quoted %09
HTML hex reference 	
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ␉
Caret Notation ^I
C Escape \t
HTML named entity 	
control CHARACTER TABULATION
control HORIZONTAL TABULATION
abbreviation HT
abbreviation TAB
alias CHARACTER TABULATION
alias horizontal tabulation (HT)
alias tab
Adobe Glyph List controlHT
digraph HT

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) —
Unicode 1 Name (na1) CHARACTER TABULATION
Block (blk) Basic Latin
General Category (gc) Control
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Segment Separator
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+0009 Character Tabulation*
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+0009 Character Tabulation*
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+0009 Character Tabulation*
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+0009 Character Tabulation*
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+0009 Character Tabulation*
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+0009 Character Tabulation*
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+0009 Character Tabulation*
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+0009 Character Tabulation*
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+0009 Character Tabulation*
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Control
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) ✘
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+0009 Character Tabulation*
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+0009 Character Tabulation*
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) Space
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+0009 Character Tabulation*
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) Break After
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+0009 Character Tabulation*
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R