Unicode Character "⇺" (U+21FA)

The character ⇺ (Leftwards Arrow With Double Vertical Stroke) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+21FA. It is encoded in the Arrows block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 3.2 (March, 2002). It is HTML encoded as ⇺.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Leftwards Arrow With Double Vertical Stroke
Unicode Codepoint U+21FA
Unicode Version 3.2 (March, 2002)
Block Arrows
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Other Neutral (ON)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Math Symbol
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+21FA Conversion

HTML (decimal) ⇺
HTML (hex) ⇺
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E2%87%BA
CSS \0021FA
JavaScript, JSON \u21FA
C, C++, Java \u21FA
Python \u21FA
Rust \u{21FA}
Ruby \u21FA

How to type "⇺"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 2 1 F A. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 2 1 F A. Release Alt.

Preview

  • ⇺
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • ⇺
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • ⇺
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE2 0x87 0xBA
UTF-16 (hex) 0x21FA
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000021FA

References