Technical information

Symbol
NameRightwards harpoon with barb downwards
Unicode numberU+21C1
CategoryHarpoon arrows
DescriptionThe Unicode character ⇁, or U+21C1, is known as the "Rightwards Harpoon with Barb Downwards". It belongs to the "Arrows" block and falls under the "Symbol, Math" category in the Unicode standard. This symbol is primarily used in mathematics and physics. In mathematics, it can represent a rightwards function or mapping. It is visually depicted as a horizontal line with an arrowhead pointing to the right and a single barb pointing downwards at the other end. The specific usage and meaning can vary based on the context in which it's used.

Encoding

HTML Entity⇁
HTML Entity (hex)⇁
HTML Entity (named)
URL Escape Code%E2%87%81
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x87 0x81
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10000111:10000001
UTF-160x21C1
UTF-320x000021C1

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u21C1"
CSS Code\21C1
JavaScript"\u21C1"
Perl\x{21C1}
Python 2u"\u21C1"
Python 3\u21C1
Ruby\u{21C1}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ⇁ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

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HTML Forms and Input

input
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input-group
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Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#8641;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\21C1";
}

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