U+FFFD
CHARACTER
REPLACEMENT CHARACTER
Category:
Other Symbol (So)
Block:
Specials
Script:
Common
Age:
Unicode 1.1
Plane:
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
Quick Facts
| Unicode Name |
REPLACEMENT CHARACTER
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|---|---|---|
| Code Point |
U+FFFD
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| Decimal Value |
65533
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| General Category | Other Symbol (So) → | |
| Unicode Block | Specials → | |
| Script | Common → | |
| Unicode Version | Unicode 1.1 → | |
| Unicode Plane |
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
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Byte Encodings
| UTF-8 3 bytes |
EF BF BD
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|---|---|---|
| UTF-16 Code Unit |
FFFD
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| UTF-32 4 bytes |
0000FFFD
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| UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order |
BE:
FF FD
LE: FD FF
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| UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order |
BE:
00 00 FF FD
LE: FD FF 00 00
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Developer Code Escapes
| HTML Decimal |
�
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|---|---|---|
| HTML Hexadecimal |
�
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| HTML Named Entity |
None
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| CSS Escape |
\00FFFD
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| JavaScript (ES6) |
\uFFFD
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| JavaScript (UTF-16) |
\uFFFD
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| JSON Escape |
\uFFFD
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| Python |
\uFFFD
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| PHP |
"\u{FFFD}"
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| Java |
"\uFFFD"
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| C / C++ |
"\uFFFD"
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| Rust |
'\u{fffd}'
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| URL Percent-Encoded |
%EF%BF%BD
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Normalization & Decomposition
| Combining Class |
0 — Not Reordered (Spacing)
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|---|---|---|
| Decomposition | None (Canonical / Precomposed Base) | |
| NFC / NFD Forms | Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD). |
Bidirectional Properties
| Bidi Class |
ON — Other Neutral
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|---|---|---|
| Bidi Mirrored | No |
Font Specimen & Rendering
Visual rendering of U+FFFD across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.
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