Specials
Range: FFF0–FFFF
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FFF
01FFFF

Interlinear annotation
Used internally for Japanese Ruby (furigana), etc.
FFF9  INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION ANCHOR• marks start of annotated text
FFFA  INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION SEPARATOR• marks start of annotating character(s)FFFB  INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION TERMINATOR• marks end of annotation block
Replacement characters
FFFC  OBJECT REPLACEMENT CHARACTER• used as placeholder in text for an otherwise
unspecified object
FFFD  REPLACEMENT CHARACTER• used to replace an incoming character whosevalue is unknown or unrepresentable inUnicode• compare the use of 001A  as a control
character to indicate the substitute function→ 2BD1  uncertainty sign
→ 1FBC4 🯄 negative squared question mark23

4Noncharacters
These codes are intended for process-internal uses.
FFFE ! <not a character>• may be used to detect byte order by contrast
with FEFF → FEFF  zero width no-break space
FFFF ! <not a character>

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89


FFF9A


FFFAB


FFFBC


FFFCDFFFDE


FFFEF
FFFFThe Unicode Standard, Version 16.0, Copyright © 1991-2024 Unicode, Inc. All rights reserved.

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