Vertical Tabulation

U+000B
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Symbol Meaning

Vertical tabulation was originally used in computer terminals and text processing systems to move the cursor down a fixed number of lines, usually one line. It is also known as vertical tab or VT.

Speaking of modern computer systems and applications, the vertical tabulation symbol is not as popular as (Horizontal Tab), but it can still be found in text files or code. Usually it serves as a delimiter between data elements or text lines.

Like other control characters, this one has no visible representation and doesn't occupy a lot of space on screen or in typed text. However, there is a separate symbol in Control Pictures2400–243F representing the graphical image of Vertical Tabulation as the abbreviation VT — .

Escape sequence: \v.

It's one of the eight control symbols, the presence of which is required by POSIX:

The symbol “Vertical Tabulation” is included in the “C0 controls” subblock of the “Basic Latin” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.

Text is also available in the following languages: Русский;

Synonyms

VT, Line Tabulation, TAB.

Unicode Name Vertical Tabulation
Unicode Number
HTML Code
CSS Code
Plane 0: Basic Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block Basic Latin
Unicode Subblock C0 controls
Unicode Version 1.1 (1993)
Keyboard shortcut ^K
Escape sequences \v
Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) None
Composition Exclusion No
Case change 000B
Simple case change 000B
scripts Common
White_Space +
Pattern_White_Space +
Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 0B 11 11 00001011
UTF-16BE 00 0B 0 11 11 00000000 00001011
UTF-16LE 0B 00 11 0 2816 00001011 00000000
UTF-32BE 00 00 00 0B 0 0 0 11 11 00000000 00000000 00000000 00001011
UTF-32LE 0B 00 00 00 11 0 0 0 184549376 00001011 00000000 00000000 00000000
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