Unicode block · U+2400–U+243F
Control Pictures
Visible pictures of the invisible ASCII control characters — a way to print "there is a tab here" without printing a tab. Terminal emulators and hex editors use them; almost nothing else does.
The block spans U+2400–U+243F and holds 42 symbols that this site catalogues. Its characters were added across 3 Unicode releases, from 1.1 to 16.0. 4 of them carry an alias or usage note from the Unicode Standard itself.
- Characters
- 42
- Range
- U+2400–U+243F
- Reference pages
- 2
- Unicode
- 17.0.0
Categories in this block: Other symbol (42)
42 characters in this block
Click any character to copy it. Names are Unicode’s own. 2 of them have a reference page with escape codes, aliases and typing instructions.
| Char | Code | Name | HTML |
|---|---|---|---|
| U+2400 | Symbol For Null | ␀ | |
| U+2401 | Symbol For Start Of Heading | ␁ | |
| U+2402 | Symbol For Start Of Text | ␂ | |
| U+2403 | Symbol For End Of Text | ␃ | |
| U+2404 | Symbol For End Of Transmission | ␄ | |
| U+2405 | Symbol For Enquiry | ␅ | |
| U+2406 | Symbol For Acknowledge | ␆ | |
| U+2407 | Symbol For Bell | ␇ | |
| U+2408 | Symbol For Backspace | ␈ | |
| U+2409 | Symbol For Horizontal Tabulation | ␉ | |
| U+240A | Symbol For Line Feed | ␊ | |
| U+240B | Symbol For Vertical Tabulation | ␋ | |
| U+240C | Symbol For Form Feed | ␌ | |
| U+240D | Symbol For Carriage Return | ␍ | |
| U+240E | Symbol For Shift Out | ␎ | |
| U+240F | Symbol For Shift In | ␏ | |
| U+2410 | Symbol For Data Link Escape | ␐ | |
| U+2411 | Symbol For Device Control One | ␑ | |
| U+2412 | Symbol For Device Control Two | ␒ | |
| U+2413 | Symbol For Device Control Three | ␓ | |
| U+2414 | Symbol For Device Control Four | ␔ | |
| U+2415 | Symbol For Negative Acknowledge | ␕ | |
| U+2416 | Symbol For Synchronous Idle | ␖ | |
| U+2417 | Symbol For End Of Transmission Block | ␗ | |
| U+2418 | Symbol For Cancel | ␘ | |
| U+2419 | Symbol For End Of Medium | ␙ | |
| U+241A | Symbol For Substitute | ␚ | |
| U+241B | Symbol For Escape | ␛ | |
| U+241C | Symbol For File Separator | ␜ | |
| U+241D | Symbol For Group Separator | ␝ | |
| U+241E | Symbol For Record Separator | ␞ | |
| U+241F | Symbol For Unit Separator | ␟ | |
| U+2420 | Symbol For Space | ␠ | |
| U+2421 | Symbol For Delete | ␡ | |
| U+2422 | Blank Symbol | ␢ | |
| U+2423 | Open Box | ␣ | |
| U+2424 | Symbol For Newline | ␤ | |
| U+2425 | Symbol For Delete Form Two | ␥ | |
| U+2426 | Symbol For Substitute Form Two | ␦ | |
| U+2427 | Symbol For Delete Square Checker Board Form | ␧ | |
| U+2428 | Symbol For Delete Rectangular Checker Board Form | ␨ | |
| U+2429 | Symbol For Delete Medium Shade Form | ␩ |