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CAN
U+0018 · CANCEL

Cancel

  • CodepointU+0018
  • NameCANCEL
  • Decimal24
  • 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+0018 is CANCEL, 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 CANCEL, CAN.

Its visible stand-in is U+2418 ␘ in the Control Pictures block.

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8181 byte
UTF-1600181 code unit
UTF-32000000184 bytes
CSS\18in content: "…"
JavaScript\u0018
JSON\u0018
Python\u0018
Python\N{CANCEL}by name
Java / C#\u0018
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{18}
Go\u0018
Ruby\u0018
URL-encoded%18percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Basic Latin

All in block →
U+0012DC2Device Control Two U+0013DC3Device Control Three U+0014DC4Device Control Four U+0015NAKNegative Acknowledge U+0016SYNSynchronous Idle U+0017ETBEnd of Transmission Block U+0019EOMEnd of Medium U+001ASUBSubstitute U+001BESCEscape U+001CFSInformation Separator Four U+001DGSInformation Separator Three U+001ERSInformation Separator Two