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ESC
U+001B · ESCAPE

Escape

  • CodepointU+001B
  • NameESCAPE
  • Decimal27
  • 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+001B is ESCAPE, 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 ESCAPE, ESC.

Its visible stand-in is U+241B ␛ in the Control Pictures block.

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-81B1 byte
UTF-16001B1 code unit
UTF-320000001B4 bytes
CSS\1Bin content: "…"
JavaScript\u001B
JSON\u001B
Python\u001B
Python\N{ESCAPE}by name
Java / C#\u001B
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{1B}
Go\u001B
Ruby\u001B
Escape sequence\eBash, GCC, Perl
URL-encoded%1Bpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Basic Latin

All in block →
U+0015NAKNegative Acknowledge U+0016SYNSynchronous Idle U+0017ETBEnd of Transmission Block U+0018CANCancel U+0019EOMEnd of Medium U+001ASUBSubstitute U+001CFSInformation Separator Four U+001DGSInformation Separator Three U+001ERSInformation Separator Two U+001FUSInformation Separator One U+0020SPSpace U+0021!Exclamation Mark