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Technical information
| Symbol | ↺ | |
| Name | Anticlockwise open circle arrow | |
| Unicode number | U+21BA | |
| Category | Clockwise arrows | |
| Description | The Unicode character ↺, or U+21BA, is known as the "Anticlockwise Open Circle Arrow". This symbol falls under the "Arrows" block and the "Symbol, Math" category in the Unicode standard. The character visually represents a circular arrow moving in an anticlockwise direction. It is often used in various graphical interfaces to represent the action of refreshing or reloading a page. In broader contexts, it can symbolize repetition, a cyclic process, or a reversal to an earlier state. It is also used in technical diagrams to indicate rotational motion or circular flow. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ↺ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ↺ | |
| HTML Entity (named) | ↺ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%86%BA | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x86 0xBA | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10000110:10111010 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x21BA | |
| UTF-32 | 0x000021BA |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u21BA" | |
| CSS Code | \21BA | |
| JavaScript | "\u21BA" | |
| Perl | \x{21BA} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u21BA" | |
| Python 3 | \u21BA | |
| Ruby | \u{21BA} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ↺ in sentence and in bold like this ↺ and in italic like this ↺.
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Font size:
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
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disabled input
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button
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
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span {
content: "\21BA";
}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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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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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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Verdana