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U+219E · LEFTWARDS TWO HEADED ARROW

Leftwards Two Headed Arrow

CodepointU+219E
NameLEFTWARDS TWO HEADED ARROW
Decimal8606
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 widthN — Neutral
MirroredNo

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →

UTF-8	`E2 86 9E`	3 bytes
UTF-16	`219E`	1 code unit
UTF-32	`0000219E`	4 bytes
HTML named	`&Larr;`	named character reference
HTML named	`&twoheadleftarrow;`	named character reference
HTML decimal	`↞`
HTML hex	`↞`
CSS	`\219E`	in content: "…"
JavaScript	`\u219E`
JSON	`\u219E`
Python	`\u219E`
Python	`\N{LEFTWARDS TWO HEADED ARROW}`	by name
Java / C#	`\u219E`
C / C++	`\u219E`	universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP	`\u{219E}`
Go	`\u219E`
Ruby	`\u219E`
Excel / Sheets	`=UNICHAR(8606)`
URL-encoded	`%E2%86%9E`	percent-encoded UTF-8

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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+2BEC⯬Leftwards Two-Headed Arrow with Triangle Arrowheads

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Nearby in Arrows

All in block →

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 U+219D↝Rightwards Wave Arrow U+219F↟Upwards Two Headed Arrow U+21A0↠Rightwards Two Headed Arrow U+21A1↡Downwards Two Headed Arrow U+21A2↢Leftwards Arrow with Tail U+21A3↣Rightwards Arrow with Tail U+21A4↤Leftwards Arrow from Bar