Low Line Spacing Underscore

U+005F

About Low Line Spacing Underscore

Low Line Spacing Underscore is the Unicode character _ at codepoint U+005F in the Basic Latin block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).

Developer Notes

Unicode Codepoint
Decimal
UTF-8 (hex)
UTF-16 (hex)
HEX Entity
HTML Entity
CSS (\xxxx)
JavaScript
Python

How to Use Low Line Spacing Underscore

To use the Low Line Spacing Underscore symbol (_) in HTML, insert the entity _ directly into your markup. The decimal entity _ works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\5F';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u005F' evaluates to _. In Python source, write '\u005F'.

The character encodes to 5F as UTF-8 bytes and 005F as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 95.

This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.

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