Technical information

Symbol
NameDownwards arrow with corner leftwards
Unicode numberU+21B5
CategoryTriangle-headed arrows with bent tipsKeyboard symbols
DescriptionThe Unicode character "↵", or U+21B5, is known as "Downwards Arrow with Corner Leftwards". It is part of the "Arrows" block and is categorized under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. It is also often referred to as the "Enter" or "Return" symbol, as it is frequently used to represent these functions in a text or on a keyboard. It indicates a line break or the end of a paragraph and the start of a new one, or the execution of a command in computing contexts.

Encoding

HTML Entity↵
HTML Entity (hex)↵
HTML Entity (named)
URL Escape Code%E2%86%B5
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x86 0xB5
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10000110:10110101
UTF-160x21B5
UTF-320x000021B5

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u21B5"
CSS Code\21B5
JavaScript"\u21B5"
Perl\x{21B5}
Python 2u"\u21B5"
Python 3\u21B5
Ruby\u{21B5}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ↵ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

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CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#8629;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\21B5";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References