Symbol For Start Of Text Graphic For Start Of Text

U+2402

About Symbol For Start Of Text Graphic For Start Of Text

Symbol For Start Of Text Graphic For Start Of Text is the Unicode character ␂ at codepoint U+2402 in the Control Pictures block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).

Technical Reference

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

How to Use Symbol For Start Of Text Graphic For Start Of Text

To use the Symbol For Start Of Text Graphic For Start Of Text 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: '\2402';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2402' evaluates to ␂. In Python source, write '\u2402'.

The character encodes to E2 90 82 as UTF-8 bytes and 2402 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9218.

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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