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U+005F CHARACTER

LOW LINE

Quick Facts

Unicode Name LOW LINE
Code Point U+005F
Decimal Value 95
General Category Connector Punctuation (Pc) →
Unicode Block Basic Latin →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 1 byte 5F
UTF-16 Code Unit 005F
UTF-32 4 bytes 0000005F
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 5F LE: 5F 00
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 00 5F LE: 5F 00 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal _
HTML Hexadecimal _
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \00005F
JavaScript (ES6) \u005F
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u005F
JSON Escape \u005F
Python \u005F
PHP "\u{5F}"
Java "\u005F"
C / C++ "\u005F"
Rust '\u{5f}'
URL Percent-Encoded %5F

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class ONOther Neutral
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+005F across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
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Context: A _ Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
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Context: A _ Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
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Context: A _ Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
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Context: A _ Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name LOW LINE

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+005F

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