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U+2196 · NORTH WEST ARROW

North West Arrow

  • CodepointU+2196
  • NameNORTH WEST ARROW
  • Emoji nameup-left arrow
  • Decimal8598
  • BlockArrows (U+2190–U+21FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2196 (↖) is NORTH WEST ARROW, a 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 “up-left 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+2196 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 86 963 bytes
UTF-1621961 code unit
UTF-32000021964 bytes
HTML named↖named character reference
HTML named↖named character reference
HTML named↖named character reference
HTML decimal↖
HTML hex↖
CSS\2196in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2196
JSON\u2196
Python\u2196
Python\N{NORTH WEST ARROW}by name
Java / C#\u2196
C / C++\u2196universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2196}
Go\u2196
Ruby\u2196
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8598)
URL-encoded%E2%86%96percent-encoded UTF-8
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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+2194↔Left Right Arrow U+2195↕Up Down Arrow U+2197↗North East Arrow U+2198↘South East Arrow U+2199↙South West Arrow U+219A↚Leftwards Arrow with Stroke U+219B↛Rightwards Arrow with Stroke U+219C↜Leftwards Wave Arrow