Technical information

Symbol
NameLeft right double arrow
Unicode numberU+21D4
CategoryDouble line arrows
DescriptionThe Unicode character ⇔, or U+21D4, is known as the "Left Right Double Arrow". It belongs to the "Arrows" block and falls under the "Symbol, Math" category in the Unicode standard. The symbol depicts two horizontal double arrows pointing in opposite directions, one to the left and one to the right. In mathematics, this symbol is often used to denote an if-and-only-if (iff) statement, suggesting a bijective relationship between two mathematical expressions or elements. It's also frequently used in logic and in computer science. The specific appearance of this symbol can depend on the font and system in use.

Encoding

HTML Entity⇔
HTML Entity (hex)⇔
HTML Entity (named)
URL Escape Code%E2%87%94
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x87 0x94
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10000111:10010100
UTF-160x21D4
UTF-320x000021D4

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u21D4"
CSS Code\21D4
JavaScript"\u21D4"
Perl\x{21D4}
Python 2u"\u21D4"
Python 3\u21D4
Ruby\u{21D4}

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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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>&#8660;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\21D4";
}

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