carriage return

control character, or mechanism, used to reset a device's position to the beginning of a line of text
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carriage return

Summary

carriage return is a mechanism[1]. It draws 195 Wikipedia views per month (mechanism category, ranking #2 of 16).[2]

Key Facts

  • carriage return's instance of is recorded as mechanism[3].
  • carriage return's instance of is recorded as whitespace[4].
  • carriage return's instance of is recorded as Unicode character[5].
  • carriage return's instance of is recorded as vertical space character as per PCRE[6].
  • typewriter carriage is named after carriage return[7].
  • carriage return's subclass of is recorded as control character[8].
  • carriage return's part of is recorded as C0 and C1 control codes[9].
  • carriage return's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01jmrc[10].
  • carriage return's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/newline[11].
  • carriage return's Quora topic ID is recorded as Carriage-Return[12].
  • carriage return's Unicode code point is recorded as 000D[13].
  • carriage return's HTML entity is recorded as [14].
  • carriage return's HTML entity is recorded as [15].
  • carriage return's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["Concept", "CarriageReturn::bn85k"][16].
  • carriage return's GlyphWiki ID is recorded as u000d[17].
  • carriage return's Unicode block is recorded as Basic Latin[18].
  • carriage return's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2777334348[19].

Why It Matters

carriage return draws 195 Wikipedia views per month (mechanism category, ranking #2 of 16).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] It is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . html.spec.whatwg.org. html.spec.whatwg.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . html.spec.whatwg.org. html.spec.whatwg.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). carriage return. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/carriage-return
MLA “carriage return.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/carriage-return.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_carriage-return_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{carriage return}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/carriage-return}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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