Not a Character
Symbol Meaning
Not a Character. Specials.
The symbol “Not a Character” is included in the “Noncharacters” subblock of the “Specials” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Not a Character |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Specials |
| Unicode Subblock | Noncharacters |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | FFFE |
| Simple case change | FFFE |
| Noncharacter_Code_Point | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | EF BF BE | 239 191 190 | 15712190 | 11101111 10111111 10111110 |
| UTF-16BE | FF FE | 255 254 | 65534 | 11111111 11111110 |
| UTF-16LE | FE FF | 254 255 | 65279 | 11111110 11111111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 FF FE | 0 0 255 254 | 65534 | 00000000 00000000 11111111 11111110 |
| UTF-32LE | FE FF 00 00 | 254 255 0 0 | 4278124544 | 11111110 11111111 00000000 00000000 |