Option Key ⌥
Symbol Meaning
Option Key. Miscellaneous Technical.
The symbol “Option Key” is included in the “Keyboard symbols” subblock of the “Miscellaneous Technical” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Option Key |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Miscellaneous Technical |
| Unicode Subblock | Keyboard symbols |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2325 |
| Simple case change | 2325 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 8C A5 | 226 140 165 | 14847141 | 11100010 10001100 10100101 |
| UTF-16BE | 23 25 | 35 37 | 8997 | 00100011 00100101 |
| UTF-16LE | 25 23 | 37 35 | 9507 | 00100101 00100011 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 23 25 | 0 0 35 37 | 8997 | 00000000 00000000 00100011 00100101 |
| UTF-32LE | 25 23 00 00 | 37 35 0 0 | 623050752 | 00100101 00100011 00000000 00000000 |