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U+21A9 · LEFTWARDS ARROW WITH HOOK

Leftwards Arrow with Hook

  • CodepointU+21A9
  • NameLEFTWARDS ARROW WITH HOOK
  • Emoji nameright arrow curving left
  • Decimal8617
  • 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

About this character

U+21A9 (↩) is LEFTWARDS ARROW WITH HOOK, 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 “right arrow curving left”, 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+21A9 U+FE0F), or with U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15 to force text style.

How to type ↩

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 86 A93 bytes
UTF-1621A91 code unit
UTF-32000021A94 bytes
HTML named↩named character reference
HTML named↩named character reference
HTML decimal↩
HTML hex↩
CSS\21A9in content: "…"
JavaScript\u21A9
JSON\u21A9
Python\u21A9
Python\N{LEFTWARDS ARROW WITH HOOK}by name
Java / C#\u21A9
C / C++\u21A9universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{21A9}
Go\u21A9
Ruby\u21A9
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8617)
URL-encoded%E2%86%A9percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Arrows

All in block →
U+21A3↣Rightwards Arrow with Tail U+21A4↤Leftwards Arrow from Bar U+21A5↥Upwards Arrow from Bar U+21A6↦Rightwards Arrow from Bar U+21A7↧Downwards Arrow from Bar U+21A8↨Up Down Arrow with Base U+21AA↪Rightwards Arrow with Hook U+21AB↫Leftwards Arrow with Loop U+21AC↬Rightwards Arrow with Loop U+21AD↭Left Right Wave Arrow U+21AE↮Left Right Arrow with Stroke U+21AF↯Downwards Zigzag Arrow