U+2425 Symbol for Delete Form Two
U+2425 was added in Unicode version 3.0 in 1999. It belongs to the block Control Pictures in the 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+2425 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The delete control character (also called DEL or rubout) is the last character in the ASCII repertoire, with the code 127. It is supposed to do nothing and was designed to erase incorrect characters on paper tape. It is denoted as ^? in caret notation and is U+007F in Unicode.
Terminal emulators may produce DEL when ← Backspace key or Control+← Backspace or Control+? are typed.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 9253 |
| UTF-8 | E2 90 A5 |
| UTF-16 | 24 25 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 24 25 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%90%A5 |
| HTML hex reference | ␥ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ⥠|
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 37 86 37 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
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| 3.0 (1999) | |
| SYMBOL FOR DELETE FORM TWO | |
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| Control Pictures | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Symbol for Delete Form Two | |
| ✘ | |
| Symbol for Delete Form Two | |
| Symbol for Delete Form Two | |
| ✘ | |
| Symbol for Delete Form Two | |
| Symbol for Delete Form Two | |
| Symbol for Delete Form Two | |
| Symbol for Delete Form Two | |
| Symbol for Delete Form Two | |
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| Symbol for Delete Form Two | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
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| 0 | |
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| None | |
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| NA | |
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| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Symbol for Delete Form Two | |
| Yes | |
| Symbol for Delete Form Two | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
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| Symbol for Delete Form Two | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Symbol for Delete Form Two | |
| U |