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U+21AE · LEFT RIGHT ARROW WITH STROKE

Left Right Arrow with Stroke

  • CodepointU+21AE
  • NameLEFT RIGHT ARROW WITH STROKE
  • Decimal8622
  • 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 widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+21AE (↮) is LEFT RIGHT ARROW WITH STROKE, 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).

It is precomposed. Under NFD it decomposes into U+2194 ↔ + U+0338 ◌̸, and NFC recombines that sequence into this single codepoint, so both spellings are canonically equivalent and should compare equal after normalization. See the normalization guide.

How to type ↮

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 86 AE3 bytes
UTF-1621AE1 code unit
UTF-32000021AE4 bytes
HTML named↮named character reference
HTML named↮named character reference
HTML decimal↮
HTML hex↮
CSS\21AEin content: "…"
JavaScript\u21AE
JSON\u21AE
Python\u21AE
Python\N{LEFT RIGHT ARROW WITH STROKE}by name
Java / C#\u21AE
C / C++\u21AEuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{21AE}
Go\u21AE
Ruby\u21AE
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8622)
URL-encoded%E2%86%AEpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDU+2194 ↔ + U+0338 ◌̸
NFKCunchanged
NFKDU+2194 ↔ + U+0338 ◌̸
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Nearby in Arrows

All in block →
U+21A8↨Up Down Arrow with Base U+21A9↩Leftwards Arrow with Hook 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+21AF↯Downwards Zigzag Arrow U+21B0↰Upwards Arrow with Tip Leftwards U+21B1↱Upwards Arrow with Tip Rightwards U+21B2↲Downwards Arrow with Tip Leftwards U+21B3↳Downwards Arrow with Tip Rightwards U+21B4↴Rightwards Arrow with Corner Downwards