BLOCK · U+2400 – U+243F · 42 CHARS

The Control Pictures block

42 assigned characters in Plane 0 (Basic Multilingual Plane).

The Control Pictures block spans U+2400–U+243F, 64 codepoints in Plane 0 (Basic Multilingual Plane). 42 are assigned in Unicode 16.0; the other 22 are reserved for future characters.

All of its characters have the script value Common: they are shared across writing systems rather than tied to one.

By general category: 42 other symbols (So).

The first 37 arrived in Unicode 1.1 (1993); later additions came in 3.0 (2), 16.0 (3).

42

Assigned characters

64

Codepoints in range

0

Plane

1.1

First version

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All 42 characters

U+2400␀Symbol for Null U+2401␁Symbol for Start of Heading U+2402␂Symbol for Start of Text U+2403␃Symbol for End of Text U+2404␄Symbol for End of Transmission U+2405␅Symbol for Enquiry U+2406␆Symbol for Acknowledge U+2407␇Symbol for Bell U+2408␈Symbol for Backspace U+2409␉Symbol for Horizontal Tabulation U+240A␊Symbol for Line Feed U+240B␋Symbol for Vertical Tabulation U+240C␌Symbol for Form Feed U+240D␍Symbol for Carriage Return U+240E␎Symbol for Shift Out U+240F␏Symbol for Shift in U+2410␐Symbol for Data Link Escape U+2411␑Symbol for Device Control One U+2412␒Symbol for Device Control Two U+2413␓Symbol for Device Control Three U+2414␔Symbol for Device Control Four U+2415␕Symbol for Negative Acknowledge U+2416␖Symbol for Synchronous Idle U+2417␗Symbol for End of Transmission Block U+2418␘Symbol for Cancel U+2419␙Symbol for End of Medium U+241A␚Symbol for Substitute U+241B␛Symbol for Escape U+241C␜Symbol for File Separator U+241D␝Symbol for Group Separator U+241E␞Symbol for Record Separator U+241F␟Symbol for Unit Separator U+2420␠Symbol for Space U+2421␡Symbol for Delete U+2422␢Blank Symbol U+2423␣Open Box U+2424␤Symbol for Newline U+2425␥Symbol for Delete Form Two U+2426␦Symbol for Substitute Form Two U+2427␧Symbol for Delete Square Checker Board Form U+2428␨Symbol for Delete Rectangular Checker Board Form U+2429␩Symbol for Delete Medium Shade Form