Reference Mark

U+203B
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character
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Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+203B
Decimal
8251
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Punctuation (Po)
Script
Common
Bidi class
ON Other Neutral
East Asian Width
A Ambiguous

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Reference Mark.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
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HTML Hex
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UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 80 BB
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
20 3B
UTF-32 Hex
0000203B
CSS Escape
\203B
JavaScript Escape
\u203B
Python Escape
\u203B
URL Encoded
%E2%80%BB
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