Technical information

Symbol
NameLeftwards harpoon over rightwards harpoon
Unicode numberU+21CB
CategoryHarpoon arrows
DescriptionThe Unicode character ⇋, or U+21CB, is known as the "Leftwards Harpoon Over Rightwards Harpoon". It belongs to the "Arrows" block and falls under the "Symbol, Math" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a graphic representation of two harpoons, with the leftwards harpoon positioned above the rightwards harpoon. It can be used in mathematical contexts, diagrams, or to represent certain relationships or operations in a variety of fields. 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%87%8B
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x87 0x8B
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10000111:10001011
UTF-160x21CB
UTF-320x000021CB

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u21CB"
CSS Code\21CB
JavaScript"\u21CB"
Perl\x{21CB}
Python 2u"\u21CB"
Python 3\u21CB
Ruby\u{21CB}

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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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>&#8651;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\21CB";
}

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