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U+203B · REFERENCE MARK

Reference Mark

  • CodepointU+203B
  • NameREFERENCE MARK
  • Decimal8251
  • BlockGeneral Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryPo — Other Punctuation
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+203B (※) is REFERENCE MARK, a punctuation mark in the General Punctuation 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).

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

How to type ※

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 80 BB3 bytes
UTF-16203B1 code unit
UTF-320000203B4 bytes
HTML decimal※
HTML hex※
CSS\203Bin content: "…"
JavaScript\u203B
JSON\u203B
Python\u203B
Python\N{REFERENCE MARK}by name
Java / C#\u203B
C / C++\u203Buniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{203B}
Go\u203B
Ruby\u203B
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8251)
URL-encoded%E2%80%BBpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in General Punctuation

All in block →
U+2035‵Reversed Prime U+2036‶Reversed Double Prime U+2037‷Reversed Triple Prime U+2038‸Caret U+2039‹Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark U+203A›Single Right-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark U+203C‼Double Exclamation Mark U+203D‽Interrobang U+203E‾Overline U+203F‿Undertie U+2040⁀Character Tie U+2041⁁Caret Insertion Point