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Technical information
| Symbol | ↑ | |
| Name | Upwards arrow | |
| Unicode number | U+2191 | |
| Category | Triangle-headed arrows | |
| Description | The Unicode character ↑, or U+2191, is known as the "Upwards Arrow". It belongs to the "Arrows" block and falls under the "Math Symbol, Other Symbol" category in the Unicode standard. As its name suggests, it's an arrow pointing upward, typically used to indicate an increase, to point to a position above or to suggest motion or direction towards the top. In mathematical contexts, it could represent the positive direction along a y-axis on a graph. In computing, it may be used as part of control sequences, in character art, or in user interfaces to indicate navigation or scrolling upward. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ↑ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ↑ | |
| HTML Entity (named) | ↑ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%86%91 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x86 0x91 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10000110:10010001 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x2191 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00002191 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u2191" | |
| CSS Code | \2191 | |
| JavaScript | "\u2191" | |
| Perl | \x{2191} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u2191" | |
| Python 3 | \u2191 | |
| Ruby | \u{2191} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ↑ in sentence and in bold like this ↑ and in italic like this ↑.
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
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span {
content: "\2191";
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