Digit Zero
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 48 on the numeric keypad to insert digit zero.
- Alt code
- Alt+48
- HTML entity
- 0
- Unicode
- U+0030
About this symbol
Zero as a number in its own right, with rules for adding and multiplying by it, was set out by the Indian mathematician Brahmagupta in 628. The word comes from the Arabic sifr, empty, which also gave English the word cipher.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- DIGIT ZERO
- Type
- Digit
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- ASCII digits
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.