Symbol for Escape ␛
␛
U+241B
Symbol Meaning
Symbol for Escape. Control Pictures.
The symbol “Symbol for Escape” is included in the “Graphic pictures for control codes” subblock of the “Control Pictures” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Symbol for Escape |
| Unicode Number | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Control Pictures |
| Unicode Subblock | Graphic pictures for control codes |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 241B |
| Simple case change | 241B |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 90 9B | 226 144 155 | 14848155 | 11100010 10010000 10011011 |
| UTF-16BE | 24 1B | 36 27 | 9243 | 00100100 00011011 |
| UTF-16LE | 1B 24 | 27 36 | 6948 | 00011011 00100100 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 24 1B | 0 0 36 27 | 9243 | 00000000 00000000 00100100 00011011 |
| UTF-32LE | 1B 24 00 00 | 27 36 0 0 | 455344128 | 00011011 00100100 00000000 00000000 |
Copy and paste these codes to use the Symbol for Escape character in text for websites, social media, messengers, or blog posts.
| HTML | |
| CSS | |
| JavaScript, JSON | |
| Unix, C, PHP, JAVA | |
| Ruby, PHP | |
| Perl | |
| URL-encode |