Technical information

Symbol
NameAnticlockwise open circle arrow
Unicode numberU+21BA
CategoryClockwise arrows
DescriptionThe 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-160x21BA
UTF-320x000021BA

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u21BA"
CSS Code\21BA
JavaScript"\u21BA"
Perl\x{21BA}
Python 2u"\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 .

Font size:

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72px

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>&#8634;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\21BA";
}

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