Symbol For Backspace
Symbol For Backspace 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+2408
About this symbol
␈ is a printable picture of backspace, control code 8 in ASCII. On a teleprinter it moved the print head back one place, which is how underlining and accents were made, by printing a second character over the first.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- SYMBOL FOR BACKSPACE
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Control Pictures
- Unicode group
- Graphic pictures for control codes
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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