Technical information

Symbol
NameRightwards dashed arrow
Unicode numberU+21E2
CategoryDashed arrows
DescriptionThe Unicode character ⇢, or U+21E2, is known as the "Rightwards Dashed 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 a dashed arrow pointing to the right. It can be used in digital communications to represent movement, direction, or to point towards something located on the right side. 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)⇢
URL Escape Code%E2%87%A2
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x87 0xA2
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10000111:10100010
UTF-160x21E2
UTF-320x000021E2

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u21E2"
CSS Code\21E2
JavaScript"\u21E2"
Perl\x{21E2}
Python 2u"\u21E2"
Python 3\u21E2
Ruby\u{21E2}

Preview

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

Font size:

12px
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28px
36px
48px
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>&#8674;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\21E2";
}

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