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Unicode Character U+0008 - BACKSPACE

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General

 
 
Name
BACKSPACE
BS, Ctrl-H
 
 
Hex
0008
U+0008
\u0008
 
 
Codepoint
8

Taxonomy

 
 
Unicode Version
1.1
 
 
Script
Code for undetermined script
(zyyy)
 
 
General Category
Control
(Cc)
 
 
Block
Basic Latin
(
0x0000
-
0x007F
)
 
 
Sub-Block
C0 controls
 
 
Plane
Basic Multilingual Plane
(
0x0000
-
0xFFFF
)
 
 
Combining Class
Not Reordered
(0)

Bidirectional

 
 
Bidirectional Class
Boundary Neutral
(BN)
 
 
Is Mirrored
false

Encoding

 
 
UTF-8
0x
08
0b
00001000
 
 
UTF-16
0x
0008
0b
0000000000001000
 
 
UTF-32
0x
00000008
0b
00000000000000000000000000001000
 
 
HTML Entities

Font

 
 
Font Coverage
1% of Google fonts have this glyph
 
 
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