Unicode Character "←" (U+FFE9)

The character (Halfwidth Leftwards Arrow) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+FFE9. It is encoded in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ←.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Halfwidth Leftwards Arrow
Unicode Codepoint U+FFE9
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
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
Decomposition mapping

U+FFE9 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ←
HTML (hex) ←
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %EF%BF%A9
CSS \00FFE9
JavaScript, JSON \uFFE9
C, C++, Java \uFFE9
Python \uFFE9
Rust \u{FFE9}
Ruby \uFFE9

How to type "←"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type F F E 9. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type F F E 9. Release Alt.

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xEF 0xBF 0xA9
UTF-16 (hex) 0xFFE9
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000FFE9

References