Technical information

Symbol
NameUpwards white arrow
Unicode numberU+21E7
CategoryKeyboard symbolsWhite arrows
DescriptionThe 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-160x21E7
UTF-320x000021E7

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u21E7"
CSS Code\21E7
JavaScript"\u21E7"
Perl\x{21E7}
Python 2u"\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 .

Font size:

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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>&#8679;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\21E7";
}

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