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␤

symbol for newline

Symbol for Newline

␤ is a visible newline symbol: it marks a line break but does not create one. The control-picture convention makes invisible controls visible; its 1993 Unicode encoding came after that convention began.

Text symbol

What ␤ means

No: ␤ marks a break; it does not create one. Software needs a real line break to start a new line.

Control pictures predate Unicode. In November 1968, the first ECMA-17 standard described pictorial and alphanumeric forms for nonprinting controls; ␤ was encoded in Unicode in 1993.

Fonts and software may draw them differently. In code review, ␤ can expose a hidden line ending; it marks the boundary, not the stored break.

Part of collections

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Coding Emoji

Don't confuse it with

␊

Symbol For Line Feed

LINE FEED moves text to the next line; ␤ is the separate newline picture.

␍

Symbol For Carriage Return

CARRIAGE RETURN returns the cursor to a line's start; ␤ is the separate newline picture.

↵

Downwards Arrow With Corner Leftwards

↵ is widely used to mark Enter or a line break; ␤ is the dedicated newline control picture.

\n Code writes a newline as the two-character escape \n; ␤ is a single visible picture of it.

Combination ideas

Shows where the line break falls

Raku docs style: output 42 followed by a newline

Two newlines in a row: a blank line

Text that ends with a newline

Questions people ask

Why does ␤ show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

Collections with ␤

➡️Arrow Symbols471 symbols

⌘Keyboard Symbols185 symbols

How to type or find ␤

Search it as: eol · nl · lf · cr · line break · line ending · u2424
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

Windows (Word)

⎇Alt+XType 2424, then AltX to get ␤.

Windows

⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).

macOS

⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “symbol for newline”.

Linux

⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 2424, then Enter or Space.

HTML

␤

CSS

\2424

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

␤

HTML hex

␤

CSS content

content: "\2424";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%E2%90%A4

On screen

Code points

JS .length

UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

Control pictures55 symbols

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