U+23FD · Other symbol
Power On Symbol Symbol ⏽
⏽ is power on symbol, U+23FD, in the Miscellaneous Technical block. It was added in Unicode 9.0, and Unicode files it under Other symbol.
What Unicode says about ⏽
use 2B58 for power off symbol
— annotation from the Unicode Standard, NamesList.txt
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+23FD | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | ⏽ | |
| HTML decimal | ⏽ | |
| CSS | \23FD | |
| JavaScript | \u{23FD} | |
| Python | \U000023FD | |
| Java / C# | \u23FD | |
| Rust | \u{23fd} | |
| Swift | \u{23FD} | |
| PHP | \u{23FD} | |
| URL encoded | %E2%8F%BD | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 8F BD | |
| UTF-16 bytes | 23FD | |
| Base64 | 4o+9 | |
| Decimal | 9213 | |
| Category | Other symbol (So) | |
| Introduced | Unicode 9.0 | |
Will ⏽ survive being pasted?
- Normalisation. Yes. ⏽ is unchanged by NFKC, so it survives normalising systems intact.
- Legacy encodings. ⏽ is Unicode-only — it has no Latin-1 equivalent, so a system stuck on an 8-bit encoding cannot represent it.
- Size. 3 bytes in UTF-8. Character-limited fields — SMS, bios, some form validators — usually count bytes, not characters.
Unicode cross-references
The standard points readers of ⏽ at these characters — usually because they look alike, or because one is the correct choice where the other is often used by mistake.
Nearby in Miscellaneous Technical
Symbols from engineering, electronics and computing: APL operators, keyboard keys, dentistry and cartography marks. The ⌘ ⌥ ⇧ ⏎ keys people paste into shortcut documentation live here.
How to type ⏽
| Windows | Type 23FD then press Alt+X |
|---|---|
| macOS | Press Ctrl+Cmd+Space, then search for “power on symbol” |
| Linux | Press Ctrl+Shift+U, type 23fd, press Enter |
| HTML | ⏽ |
About Unicode’s Other symbol category
Unicode files this under "other symbol" — the catch-all for pictographs, signs and marks that are neither maths, currency, nor letter-like. It is the largest symbol category in the standard.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I type the ⏽ power on symbol symbol?
- On Windows, type 23FD and press Alt+X. On Linux press Ctrl+Shift+U then 23fd. On any system the quickest route is the copy button on this page.
- What is the code for ⏽?
- Power On Symbol is U+23FD. In UTF-8 it takes 3 bytes. The table above lists every escape format.
- What kind of character is ⏽?
- Power On Symbol is filed under Other symbol in the Miscellaneous Technical block, and was introduced in Unicode 9.0. Unicode files this under "other symbol" — the catch-all for pictographs, signs and marks that are neither maths, currency, nor letter-like. It is the largest symbol category in the standard.