This unicode character belongs to the Basic Latin Unicode Block.

Decimal value21
CodepointU+15
UTF-8 bytes (dec)21
UTF-8 bytes (hex)15
HTML entity
VIM DigraphNK
CategoryCc
Class0

Aliases

NEGATIVE ACKNOWLEDGE (control)

NAK (abbreviation)


Control-U was originally used by Digital Equipment Corporation computers to cancel the current line of typed-in text. Other manufacturers used Control-X for this purpose.