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DEL
U+007F · DELETE

Delete

  • CodepointU+007F
  • NameDELETE
  • Decimal127
  • 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+007F is DELETE, 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 DELETE, DEL.

Its visible stand-in is U+2421 ␡ in the Control Pictures block.

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-87F1 byte
UTF-16007F1 code unit
UTF-320000007F4 bytes
CSS\7Fin content: "…"
JavaScript\u007F
JSON\u007F
Python\u007F
Python\N{DELETE}by name
Java / C#\u007F
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{7F}
Go\u007F
Ruby\u007F
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(127)
URL-encoded%7Fpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Basic Latin

All in block →
U+0079yLatin Small Letter Y U+007AzLatin Small Letter Z U+007B{Left Curly Bracket U+007C|Vertical Line U+007D}Right Curly Bracket U+007E~Tilde