↮ is the Unicode character LEFT RIGHT ARROW WITH STROKE, code point U+21AE (decimal 8622) in the Arrows block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write ↮, and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes E2 86 AE.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+21AE |
| Decimal | 8622 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 86 AE |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 21AE |
| UTF-32 | 000021AE |
| HTML decimal | ↮ |
| HTML hex | ↮ |
| HTML named | ↮ ↮ |
| CSS | \21AE |
| JavaScript | \u21AE |
| JSON | \u21AE |
| Python | \u21AE |
| Python by name | \N{LEFT RIGHT ARROW WITH STROKE} |
| Java, C# | \u21AE |
| Rust, Swift | \u{21AE} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u21AE |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %E2%86%AE |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | LEFT RIGHT ARROW WITH STROKE |
| Code point | U+21AE (decimal 8622) |
| Block | Arrows (U+2190–U+21FF) |
| General category | Sm: Math symbol |
| Script | Common |
| Bidirectional class | ON: Other neutral |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Decomposition
LEFT RIGHT ARROW WITH STROKE is canonically equivalent to the sequence below. Normalising text to NFD splits it into these parts; NFC joins them back into U+21AE. Search and comparison should normalise first, or the two spellings will not match.
Nearby in Arrows
- ↦ U+21A6 Rightwards Arrow From Bar
- ↧ U+21A7 Downwards Arrow From Bar
- ↨ U+21A8 Up Down Arrow With Base
- ↩ U+21A9 Right arrow curving left
- ↪ U+21AA Left arrow curving right
- ↫ U+21AB Leftwards Arrow With Loop
- ↬ U+21AC Rightwards Arrow With Loop
- ↭ U+21AD Left Right Wave Arrow
- ↯ U+21AF Downwards Zigzag Arrow
- ↰ U+21B0 Upwards Arrow With Tip Leftwards
- ↱ U+21B1 Upwards Arrow With Tip Rightwards
- ↲ U+21B2 Downwards Arrow With Tip Leftwards
- ↳ U+21B3 Downwards Arrow With Tip Rightwards
- ↴ U+21B4 Rightwards Arrow With Corner Downwards
- ↵ U+21B5 Downwards Arrow With Corner Leftwards
- ↶ U+21B6 Anticlockwise Top Semicircle Arrow
All 112 characters: Arrows.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for ↮?
- Use the named entity ↮, or ↮ (decimal) or ↮ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+21AE?
- E2 86 AE (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %E2%86%AE.
- How do I write U+21AE in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u21AE. Python: \u21AE.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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