Technical information

Symbol
NameNorth west black arrow
Unicode numberU+2B09
CategoryBlack arrows
DescriptionThe Unicode character ⬉, or U+2B09, is known as the "North West Black Arrow". It belongs to the "Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character visually represents an arrow pointing diagonally towards the upper left direction, which corresponds to the north-west direction on a compass or map. Being termed as "black" in its name, the arrow is typically filled or solid in its representation. Such arrows are commonly used to indicate direction or movement in graphical interfaces, diagrams, charts, and maps. The precise visual rendition of this character can depend on the system, application, or font it is displayed in, and minor stylistic variations might be observed across different platforms or design contexts.

Encoding

HTML Entity⬉
HTML Entity (hex)⬉
URL Escape Code%E2%AC%89
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0xAC 0x89
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10101100:10001001
UTF-160x2B09
UTF-320x00002B09

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u2B09"
CSS Code\2B09
JavaScript"\u2B09"
Perl\x{2B09}
Python 2u"\u2B09"
Python 3\u2B09
Ruby\u{2B09}

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>&#11017;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\2B09";
}

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