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U+FFFD · REPLACEMENT CHARACTER

Replacement Character

  • CodepointU+FFFD
  • NameREPLACEMENT CHARACTER
  • Decimal65533
  • BlockSpecials (U+FFF0–U+FFFF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+FFFD (�) is REPLACEMENT CHARACTER, a symbol in the Specials 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-8EF BF BD3 bytes
UTF-16FFFD1 code unit
UTF-320000FFFD4 bytes
HTML decimal�
HTML hex�
CSS\FFFDin content: "…"
JavaScript\uFFFD
JSON\uFFFD
Python\uFFFD
Python\N{REPLACEMENT CHARACTER}by name
Java / C#\uFFFD
C / C++\uFFFDuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{FFFD}
Go\uFFFD
Ruby\uFFFD
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(65533)
URL-encoded%EF%BF%BDpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Specials

All in block →
U+FFF9U+FFF9Interlinear Annotation Anchor U+FFFAU+FFFAInterlinear Annotation Separator U+FFFBU+FFFBInterlinear Annotation Terminator U+FFFCObject Replacement Character