Symbol For Start Of Heading

U+2401
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character
Decimal ␁
Hex ␁

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+2401
Decimal
9217
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Symbol (So)
Script
Common
Bidi class
ON Other Neutral
East Asian Width
N Narrow

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 — Symbol For Start Of Heading.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
␁
HTML Hex
␁
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 90 81
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
24 01
UTF-32 Hex
00002401
CSS Escape
\2401
JavaScript Escape
\u2401
Python Escape
\u2401
URL Encoded
%E2%90%81
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