Broken Circle With Northwest Arrow

Part of Technical and Miscellaneous Symbols

Broken Circle With Northwest Arrow has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.

Alt code
None
HTML entity
⎋
Unicode
U+238B

About this symbol

⎋ is the escape symbol from the international standard for keyboard symbols, ISO/IEC 9995-7, a broken circle with an arrow escaping out of it. It marks the Esc key on some keyboards.

Unicode facts

Official name
BROKEN CIRCLE WITH NORTHWEST ARROW
Also called
Escape
Type
Symbol
Unicode block
Miscellaneous Technical
Unicode group
Keyboard symbols from ISO 9995-7
Added in
Unicode 3.0 (1999)

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