Technical information

Symbol
NameNorth west arrow
Unicode numberU+2196
CategoryTriangle-headed arrows
DescriptionThe Unicode character ↖, or U+2196, is known as the "North West Arrow". It belongs to the "Arrows" block and falls under the "Symbol, Math" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a graphic representation of an arrow that points towards the upper left, or north-west direction, on a standard left-to-right and top-to-bottom reading plane. It is commonly used in diagrams, maps, or any graphic display that needs to represent a direction, movement, or displacement towards the north-west. 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)↖
HTML Entity (named)
URL Escape Code%E2%86%96
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x86 0x96
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10000110:10010110
UTF-160x2196
UTF-320x00002196

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u2196"
CSS Code\2196
JavaScript"\u2196"
Perl\x{2196}
Python 2u"\u2196"
Python 3\u2196
Ruby\u{2196}

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
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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>&#8598;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\2196";
}

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