This unicode character belongs to the Basic Latin Unicode Block.

Decimal value7
CodepointU+7
UTF-8 bytes (dec)7
UTF-8 bytes (hex)7
HTML entity
VIM DigraphBL
CategoryCc
Class0

Aliases

ALERT (control)

BEL (abbreviation)

Control-G is an artifact of the days when teletypes were in use. Important messages could be signaled by striking the bell on the teletype. This was carried over on PCs by generating a buzz sound.

No formal name alias is provided for the ISO 6429 "BELL" for U+0007, because of the existing name collision with U+1F514 BELL.