Symbol For Backspace
Group: Technical
Keywords
About this character
Symbol For Backspace belongs to the Technical group and is encoded at U+2408. It was added in Unicode 0.0.
Shortcode
Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.
Technical codes
- Code point
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U+2408 - Hex
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2408 - Decimal
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9224 - HTML
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␈ - CSS
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\2408 - JavaScript
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\u2408 - Python
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\u2408 - UTF-8
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E2 90 88
The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.