Alternative Key Symbol ⎇
Symbol Meaning
Alternative Key Symbol. Miscellaneous Technical.
The symbol “Alternative Key Symbol” is included in the “Keyboard symbols from ISO 9995-7” subblock of the “Miscellaneous Technical” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 3.0 in 1999.
| Unicode Name | Alternative Key Symbol |
| Unicode Number | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Miscellaneous Technical |
| Unicode Subblock | Keyboard symbols from ISO 9995-7 |
| Unicode Version | 3.0 (1999) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2387 |
| Simple case change | 2387 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 8E 87 | 226 142 135 | 14847623 | 11100010 10001110 10000111 |
| UTF-16BE | 23 87 | 35 135 | 9095 | 00100011 10000111 |
| UTF-16LE | 87 23 | 135 35 | 34595 | 10000111 00100011 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 23 87 | 0 0 35 135 | 9095 | 00000000 00000000 00100011 10000111 |
| UTF-32LE | 87 23 00 00 | 135 35 0 0 | 2267217920 | 10000111 00100011 00000000 00000000 |
Copy and paste these codes to use the Alternative Key Symbol character in text for websites, social media, messengers, or blog posts.
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| Unix, C, PHP, JAVA | |
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| URL-encode |