Symbol For Delete
Symbol For Delete 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+2421
About this symbol
␡ is a printable picture of the delete control code, number 127 in ASCII, the code with every hole punched. On paper tape, punching every hole over a mistake turned it into a delete that the machine would skip.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- SYMBOL FOR DELETE
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Control Pictures
- Unicode group
- Graphic pictures for control codes
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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