U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER: � – Unicode (original) (raw)
Glyph for U+FFFD
Source: Noto Sans
U+FFFD was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+FFF0 to U+FFFF Specials in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. If its East Asian Width is “narrow”, U+FFFD forms a word with similar characters, which prevents a line break inside it. Otherwise it allows line breaks around it, except in some numeric contexts.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 65533 |
| UTF-8 | EF BF BD |
| UTF-16 | FF FD |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 FF FD |
| URL-Quoted | %EF%BF%BD |
| HTML hex reference | � |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | � |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 84 31 A4 37 |
| Encoding: CP290 (hex bytes) | FE |
| Encoding: CP420 (hex bytes) | FA |
| Encoding: CP833 (hex bytes) | FE |
| AGL: Latin-5 | uniFFFD |
Elsewhere
- Unicode website
- Reference rendering on Unicode.org
- Fileformat.info
- Graphemica
- The UniSearcher
- Compart
- ScriptSource
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Age (age) | 1.1 (1993) |
| Unicode Name (na) | REPLACEMENT CHARACTER |
| Unicode 1 Name (na1) | — |
| Block (blk) | Specials |
| General Category (gc) | Other Symbol |
| Script (sc) | Common |
| Bidirectional Category (bc) | Other Neutral |
| Combining Class (ccc) | Not Reordered |
| Decomposition Type (dt) | none |
| Decomposition Mapping (dm) | Glyph for U+FFFD Replacement Character |
| Lowercase (Lower) | ✘︎ |
| Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) | Glyph for U+FFFD Replacement Character |
| Lowercase Mapping (lc) | Glyph for U+FFFD Replacement Character |
| Uppercase (Upper) | ✘︎ |
| Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) | Glyph for U+FFFD Replacement Character |
| Uppercase Mapping (uc) | Glyph for U+FFFD Replacement Character |
| Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) | Glyph for U+FFFD Replacement Character |
| Titlecase Mapping (tc) | Glyph for U+FFFD Replacement Character |
| Case Folding (cf) | Glyph for U+FFFD Replacement Character |
| ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) | ✘︎ |
| Alphabetic (Alpha) | ✘︎ |
| Bidi Control (Bidi_C) | ✘︎ |
| Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) | ✘︎ |
| Composition Exclusion (CE) | ✘︎ |
| Case Ignorable (CI) | ✘︎ |
| Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) | ✘︎ |
| Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) | ✘︎ |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) | ✘︎ |
| Changes When Lowercased (CWL) | ✘︎ |
| Changes When Titlecased (CWT) | ✘︎ |
| Changes When Uppercased (CWU) | ✘︎ |
| Cased (Cased) | ✘︎ |
| Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) | ✘︎ |
| Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) | ✘︎ |
| Dash (Dash) | ✘︎ |
| Deprecated (Dep) | ✘︎ |
| Diacritic (Dia) | ✘︎ |
| Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) | ✘︎ |
| Emoji Component (EComp) | ✘︎ |
| Emoji Modifier (EMod) | ✘︎ |
| Emoji Presentation (EPres) | ✘︎ |
| Emoji (Emoji) | ✘︎ |
| Extender (Ext) | ✘︎ |
| Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) | ✘︎ |
| FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) | Glyph for U+FFFD Replacement Character |
| Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) | Any |
| Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) | ✔︎ |
| Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) | ✘︎ |
| Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) | ✘︎ |
| Hex Digit (Hex) | ✘︎ |
| Hyphen (Hyphen) | ✘︎ |
| ID Continue (IDC) | ✘︎ |
| ID Start (IDS) | ✘︎ |
| IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) | ✘︎ |
| IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) | ✘︎ |
| IDSU (IDSU) | 0 |
| ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) | 0 |
| ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) | 0 |
| Ideographic (Ideo) | ✘︎ |
| InCB (InCB) | None |
| Indic Mantra Category (InMC) | — |
| Indic Positional Category (InPC) | NA |
| Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) | Other |
| Jamo Short Name (JSN) | — |
| Join Control (Join_C) | ✘︎ |
| Logical Order Exception (LOE) | ✘︎ |
| Modifier Combining Mark (MCM) | ✘︎ |
| Math (Math) | ✘︎ |
| Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) | ✘︎ |
| NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) | Glyph for U+FFFD Replacement Character |
| NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) | Yes |
| NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) | Glyph for U+FFFD Replacement Character |
| NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) | Yes |
| Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) | ✘︎ |
| Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) | ✘︎ |
| Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) | ✘︎ |
| Other ID Continue (OIDC) | ✘︎ |
| Other ID Start (OIDS) | ✘︎ |
| Other Lowercase (OLower) | ✘︎ |
| Other Math (OMath) | ✘︎ |
| Other Uppercase (OUpper) | ✘︎ |
| Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) | ✘︎ |
| Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) | ✘︎ |
| Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) | ✘︎ |
| Quotation Mark (QMark) | ✘︎ |
| Regional Indicator (RI) | ✘︎ |
| Radical (Radical) | ✘︎ |
| Sentence Break (SB) | Other |
| Soft Dotted (SD) | ✘︎ |
| Sentence Terminal (STerm) | ✘︎ |
| Terminal Punctuation (Term) | ✘︎ |
| Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) | ✘︎ |
| Variation Selector (VS) | ✘︎ |
| Word Break (WB) | Other |
| White Space (WSpace) | ✘︎ |
| XID Continue (XIDC) | ✘︎ |
| XID Start (XIDS) | ✘︎ |
| Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) | ✘︎ |
| Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) | ✘︎ |
| Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) | ✘︎ |
| Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) | ✘︎ |
| Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) | Glyph for U+FFFD Replacement Character |
| Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) | None |
| East Asian Width (ea) | ambiguous |
| Hangul Syllable Type (hst) | Not Applicable |
| ISO 10646 Comment (isc) | — |
| Joining Group (jg) | No_Joining_Group |
| Joining Type (jt) | Non Joining |
| Line Break (lb) | Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) |
| Numeric Type (nt) | none |
| Numeric Value (nv) | not a number |
| Simple Case Folding (scf) | Glyph for U+FFFD Replacement Character |
| Script Extension (scx) | |
| Vertical Orientation (vo) | U |