Tape Drive ✇
Symbol Meaning
The symbol U+2707 depicts a tape drive, which used to be relevant when listening to music on the tape recorder or cassette player. The sign is done as a small circle with holes, through which you can see a black tape. The schematic drawing doesn't have excessive details or shadows, just like many other Unicode symbols from first versions.
The icon of tape drive is most often applied to mark the buttons launching tape recorders or any other programmes, functions, actions that start audio or video recording.
The symbol “Tape Drive” is included in the “Miscellaneous” subblock of the “Dingbats” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Tape Drive |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Dingbats |
| Unicode Subblock | Miscellaneous |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2707 |
| Simple case change | 2707 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9C 87 | 226 156 135 | 14851207 | 11100010 10011100 10000111 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 07 | 39 7 | 9991 | 00100111 00000111 |
| UTF-16LE | 07 27 | 7 39 | 1831 | 00000111 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 07 | 0 0 39 7 | 9991 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 00000111 |
| UTF-32LE | 07 27 00 00 | 7 39 0 0 | 119996416 | 00000111 00100111 00000000 00000000 |
