ASCII Character Symbols ␀ ␣ ¶

ASCII Character Representation

Unicode has symbols to represent ASCII unprintable characters.

␀ ␁ ␂ ␃ ␄ ␅ ␆ ␇ ␈ ␉ ␊ ␋ ␌ ␍ ␎ ␏ ␐ ␑ ␒ ␓ ␔ ␕ ␖ ␗ ␘ ␙ ␚ ␛ ␜ ␝ ␞ ␟ ␡

ASCII Table of Unprintable Chars

Decimal	Hex	Abbr	Unicode Symbol	Caret Notation	C Escape Syntax	Description
0	00	NUL	␀	^@	\0	Null character
1	01	SOH	␁	^A		Start of Header
2	02	STX	␂	^B		Start of Text
3	03	ETX	␃	^C		End of Text
4	04	EOT	␄	^D		End of Transmission
5	05	ENQ	␅	^E		Enquiry
6	06	ACK	␆	^F		Acknowledgment
7	07	BEL	␇	^G	\a	Bell
8	08	BS	␈	^H	\b	Backspace
9	09	HT	␉	^I	\t	Horizontal Tab
10	0A	LF	␊	^J	\n	Line feed
11	0B	VT	␋	^K	\v	Vertical Tab
12	0C	FF	␌	^L	\f	Form feed
13	0D	CR	␍	^M	\r	Carriage return
14	0E	SO	␎	^N		Shift Out
15	0F	SI	␏	^O		Shift In
16	10	DLE	␐	^P		Data Link Escape
17	11	DC1	␑	^Q		Device Control 1 (oft. XON)
18	12	DC2	␒	^R		Device Control 2
19	13	DC3	␓	^S		Device Control 3 (oft. XOFF)
20	14	DC4	␔	^T		Device Control 4
21	15	NAK	␕	^U		Negative Acknowledgment
22	16	SYN	␖	^V		Synchronous Idle
23	17	ETB	␗	^W		End of Trans. Block
24	18	CAN	␘	^X		Cancel
25	19	EM	␙	^Y		End of Medium
26	1A	SUB	␚	^Z		Substitute
27	1B	ESC	␛	^[	\e	Escape
28	1C	FS	␜	^\		File Separator
29	1D	GS	␝	^]		Group Separator
30	1E	RS	␞	^^		Record Separator
31	1F	US	␟	^_		Unit Separator
127	7F	DEL	␡	^?		Delete
Decimal	Hex	Abbr	Unicode Symbol	Caret Notation	C Escape Code	Description

Caret notation is heavily used in emacs. Emacs: Newline Representations ^M ^J ^L.

Non-printable ASCII is heavily used in unix terminal. See: Linux: Terminal Control Sequence Keys

Complete ASCII Table

ASCII Table

Whitespace Character Representation

Here are other character representation symbols. They are often used in text editor or word processor to indicate whitespace.

Tab ↹ ⇄ ⇤ ⇥ ↤ ↦ ◁ ▷

space · ␣ ˽ ␠ ␢

paragraph, section, newline. ¶ § ␤ ↵ ↩ ⏎

Sample usage: Emacs's whitespace-mode

Unicode Keyboard Symbols ⌘ ⏎ ⌫

Unicode Keyboard Symbols ⌘ ⏎ ⌫

misc character, editing

For much more, see Unicode Punctuations † ¶ © ® ™ ☙