Return Symbol
Return Symbol has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ⏎
- Unicode
- U+23CE
About this symbol
⏎ is the return symbol, printed on the Return or Enter key of many keyboards. The arrow going down and back to the left recalls the typewriter, where returning the carriage moved the paper up a line and back to the start of it.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- RETURN SYMBOL
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Miscellaneous Technical
- Unicode group
- Keyboard and UI symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 3.2 (2002)
- Unicode notes
- May be shown with either hollow or filled glyph
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