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Technical information
| Symbol | ↻ | |
| Name | Clockwise open circle arrow | |
| Unicode number | U+21BB | |
| Category | Clockwise arrows | |
| Description | The Unicode character ↻, or U+21BB, is known as the "Clockwise Open Circle Arrow". It belongs to the "Arrows" block, which includes a wide variety of arrows utilized in mathematical notation, diagrams, weather maps, and other illustrative contexts. This character falls under the "Symbol, Other" category. Visually, the character depicts an arrow forming a complete loop in a clockwise direction. The tail of the arrow is not filled, giving the symbol its "open" designation. This symbol is often used to denote the concept of repetition, renewal, or cyclic processes, especially in scientific and technical diagrams. It might represent the notion of a process that is continuously repeating or the idea of a return to an initial state. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ↻ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ↻ | |
| HTML Entity (named) | ↻ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%86%BB | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x86 0xBB | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10000110:10111011 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x21BB | |
| UTF-32 | 0x000021BB |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u21BB" | |
| CSS Code | \21BB | |
| JavaScript | "\u21BB" | |
| Perl | \x{21BB} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u21BB" | |
| Python 3 | \u21BB | |
| Ruby | \u{21BB} |
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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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
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disabled input
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
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span {
content: "\21BB";
}The symbol in different fonts
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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