⇦
Technical information
| Symbol | ⇦ | |
| Name | Leftwards white arrow | |
| Unicode number | U+21E6 | |
| Category | White arrows | |
| Description | The Unicode character ⇦, or U+21E6, is known as the "Leftwards White Arrow". It belongs to the "Arrows" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a graphic representation of a white arrow pointing towards the left. In digital documents or diagrams, it can be used to indicate direction, movement, or to point towards a specific object or area. 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%A6 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x87 0xA6 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10000111:10100110 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x21E6 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x000021E6 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u21E6" | |
| CSS Code | \21E6 | |
| JavaScript | "\u21E6" | |
| Perl | \x{21E6} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u21E6" | |
| Python 3 | \u21E6 | |
| Ruby | \u{21E6} |
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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12px
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16px
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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
input
disabled input
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select
button
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>⇦</span>
span {
content: "\21E6";
}The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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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