Unicode Character "↓" (U+FFEC)

The character (Halfwidth Downwards Arrow) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+FFEC. 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 Downwards Arrow
Unicode Codepoint U+FFEC
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+FFEC Conversion

HTML (decimal) ↓
HTML (hex) ↓
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %EF%BF%AC
CSS \00FFEC
JavaScript, JSON \uFFEC
C, C++, Java \uFFEC
Python \uFFEC
Rust \u{FFEC}
Ruby \uFFEC

How to type "↓"

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

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xEF 0xBF 0xAC
UTF-16 (hex) 0xFFEC
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000FFEC

References