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U+0009 · CHARACTER TABULATION

Character Tabulation

  • CodepointU+0009
  • NameCHARACTER TABULATION
  • Decimal9
  • BlockBasic Latin (U+0000–U+007F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryCc — Control
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classS — Segment Separator
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+0009 is CHARACTER TABULATION, 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 CHARACTER TABULATION, HORIZONTAL TABULATION, HT, TAB.

Its visible stand-in is U+2409 ␉ in the Control Pictures block.

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8091 byte
UTF-1600091 code unit
UTF-32000000094 bytes
HTML named	named character reference
HTML decimal	
HTML hex	
CSS\9in content: "…"
JavaScript\u0009
JSON\u0009
Python\u0009
Python\N{CHARACTER TABULATION}by name
Java / C#\u0009
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{9}
Go\u0009
Ruby\u0009
Escape sequence\tC, Python, JavaScript
URL-encoded%09percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Basic Latin

All in block →
U+0003ETXEnd of Text U+0004EOTEnd of Transmission U+0005ENQEnquiry U+0006ACKAcknowledge U+0007BELAlert U+0008BSBackspace U+000ALFLine Feed U+000BVTLine Tabulation U+000CFFForm Feed U+000DCRCarriage Return U+000ESOShift Out U+000FSIShift in