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U+2194 · LEFT RIGHT ARROW

Left Right Arrow

  • CodepointU+2194
  • NameLEFT RIGHT ARROW
  • Emoji nameleft-right arrow
  • Decimal8596
  • BlockArrows (U+2190–U+21FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySm — Math Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2194 (↔) is LEFT RIGHT ARROW, a mathematical symbol in the Arrows block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its emoji name (CLDR short name) is “left-right arrow”, in the Symbols group, subgroup arrow. By default it is shown as a text glyph; follow it with U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 to request the colour emoji form (U+2194 U+FE0F), or with U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15 to force text style.

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

How to type ↔

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 86 943 bytes
UTF-1621941 code unit
UTF-32000021944 bytes
HTML named↔named character reference
HTML named↔named character reference
HTML named↔named character reference
HTML decimal↔
HTML hex↔
CSS\2194in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2194
JSON\u2194
Python\u2194
Python\N{LEFT RIGHT ARROW}by name
Java / C#\u2194
C / C++\u2194universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2194}
Go\u2194
Ruby\u2194
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8596)
URL-encoded%E2%86%94percent-encoded UTF-8
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Characters built on ↔

U+21AE↮Left Right Arrow with Stroke
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Nearby in Arrows

All in block →
U+2190←Leftwards Arrow U+2191↑Upwards Arrow U+2192→Rightwards Arrow U+2193↓Downwards Arrow U+2195↕Up Down Arrow U+2196↖North West Arrow U+2197↗North East Arrow U+2198↘South East Arrow U+2199↙South West Arrow U+219A↚Leftwards Arrow with Stroke