Carriage return

Originally, the term "carriage return" referred to a mechanism or lever on a typewriter.

To improve the keyboard for non-English-speakers, the symbol ↵ (U+21B5, HTML entity ↵) was introduced to communicate the combined carriage return and line feed action.

[1] The carriage return and line feed functions were split for practical reasons: As early as 1901, Baudot code contained separate carriage return and line feed characters.

Many computer programs use the carriage return character, alone or with a line feed, to signal the end of a line of text, but other characters are also used for this function (see newline); others use it only for a paragraph break (a "hard return").

In both ASCII and Unicode, the carriage return is assigned code point 13 (or 0D in hexadecimal); it may also be seen as control+M or ^M.