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Technical information
| Symbol | ⟵ | |
| Name | Long leftwards arrow | |
| Unicode number | U+27F5 | |
| Category | Long arrows | |
| Description | The Unicode character ⟵, or U+27F5, is known as "Long Leftwards Arrow". It is part of the "Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A" block and is categorized under the "Math Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character represents an extended or elongated version of the conventional leftwards arrow, and it is commonly used in mathematics or logic to denote a relationship or process flowing in a leftwards direction, or the inverse of a process or relationship. It can also be used in diagrams or models where more space or emphasis is needed for the arrow. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ⟵ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ⟵ | |
| HTML Entity (named) | ⟵ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%9F%B5 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x9F 0xB5 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10011111:10110101 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x27F5 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x000027F5 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u27F5" | |
| CSS Code | \27F5 | |
| JavaScript | "\u27F5" | |
| Perl | \x{27F5} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u27F5" | |
| Python 3 | \u27F5 | |
| Ruby | \u{27F5} |
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: "\27F5";
}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