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BS
U+0008 · BACKSPACE

Backspace

  • CodepointU+0008
  • NameBACKSPACE
  • Decimal8
  • BlockBasic Latin (U+0000–U+007F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryCc — Control
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classBN — Boundary Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+0008 is BACKSPACE, a control character in the Basic Latin block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a control code inherited from ASCII. Unicode gives control codes no formal name, only the aliases BACKSPACE, BS.

Its visible stand-in is U+2408 ␈ in the Control Pictures block.

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8081 byte
UTF-1600081 code unit
UTF-32000000084 bytes
CSS\8in content: "…"
JavaScript\u0008
JSON\u0008
Python\u0008
Python\N{BACKSPACE}by name
Java / C#\u0008
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{8}
Go\u0008
Ruby\u0008
Escape sequence\bC, Python, JavaScript
URL-encoded%08percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Basic Latin

All in block →
U+0002STXStart of Text U+0003ETXEnd of Text U+0004EOTEnd of Transmission U+0005ENQEnquiry U+0006ACKAcknowledge U+0007BELAlert U+0009HTCharacter Tabulation U+000ALFLine Feed U+000BVTLine Tabulation U+000CFFForm Feed U+000DCRCarriage Return U+000ESOShift Out