Technical information

Symbol
NameLeftwards white arrow
Unicode numberU+21E6
CategoryWhite arrows
DescriptionThe Unicode character ⇦, or U+21E6, is known as the "Leftwards White Arrow". It belongs to the "Arrows" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a graphic representation of a white arrow pointing towards the left. In digital documents or diagrams, it can be used to indicate direction, movement, or to point towards a specific object or area. 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)⇦
URL Escape Code%E2%87%A6
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x87 0xA6
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10000111:10100110
UTF-160x21E6
UTF-320x000021E6

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u21E6"
CSS Code\21E6
JavaScript"\u21E6"
Perl\x{21E6}
Python 2u"\u21E6"
Python 3\u21E6
Ruby\u{21E6}

Preview

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

Font size:

12px
16px
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28px
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>&#8678;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\21E6";
}

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