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Technical information
| Symbol | ⇧ | |
| Name | Upwards white arrow | |
| Unicode number | U+21E7 | |
| Category | Keyboard symbolsWhite arrows | |
| Description | The Unicode character ⇧, or U+21E7, is known as the "Upwards White Arrow". It belongs to the "Arrows" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is visually represented by an arrow pointing upwards and is typically white in color, although the actual appearance may vary depending on the platform and font used. The upwards arrow is often used to indicate the direction of movement or progress, and in the context of computer keyboards, it usually represents the "Shift" key. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ⇧ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ⇧ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%87%A7 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x87 0xA7 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10000111:10100111 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x21E7 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x000021E7 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u21E7" | |
| CSS Code | \21E7 | |
| JavaScript | "\u21E7" | |
| Perl | \x{21E7} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u21E7" | |
| Python 3 | \u21E7 | |
| Ruby | \u{21E7} |
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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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: "\21E7";
}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