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Technical information
| Symbol | ↖ | |
| Name | North west arrow | |
| Unicode number | U+2196 | |
| Category | Triangle-headed arrows | |
| Description | The Unicode character ↖, or U+2196, is known as the "North West Arrow". It belongs to the "Arrows" block and falls under the "Symbol, Math" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a graphic representation of an arrow that points towards the upper left, or north-west direction, on a standard left-to-right and top-to-bottom reading plane. It is commonly used in diagrams, maps, or any graphic display that needs to represent a direction, movement, or displacement towards the north-west. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ↖ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ↖ | |
| HTML Entity (named) | ↖ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%86%96 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x86 0x96 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10000110:10010110 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x2196 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00002196 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u2196" | |
| CSS Code | \2196 | |
| JavaScript | "\u2196" | |
| Perl | \x{2196} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u2196" | |
| Python 3 | \u2196 | |
| Ruby | \u{2196} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ↖ in sentence and in bold like this ↖ and in italic like this ↖.
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CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
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span {
content: "\2196";
}The symbol in different fonts
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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