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FF
U+000C · FORM FEED

Form Feed

  • CodepointU+000C
  • NameFORM FEED
  • Decimal12
  • BlockBasic Latin (U+0000–U+007F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryCc — Control
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classWS — Whitespace
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+000C is FORM FEED, 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 FORM FEED, FF.

Its visible stand-in is U+240C ␌ in the Control Pictures block.

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-80C1 byte
UTF-16000C1 code unit
UTF-320000000C4 bytes
CSS\Cin content: "…"
JavaScript\u000C
JSON\u000C
Python\u000C
Python\N{FORM FEED}by name
Java / C#\u000C
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{C}
Go\u000C
Ruby\u000C
Escape sequence\fC, Python, JavaScript
URL-encoded%0Cpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Basic Latin

All in block →
U+0006ACKAcknowledge U+0007BELAlert U+0008BSBackspace U+0009HTCharacter Tabulation U+000ALFLine Feed U+000BVTLine Tabulation U+000DCRCarriage Return U+000ESOShift Out U+000FSIShift in U+0010DLEData Link Escape U+0011DC1Device Control One U+0012DC2Device Control Two