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U+21B8 · NORTH WEST ARROW TO LONG BAR

North West Arrow to Long Bar

  • CodepointU+21B8
  • NameNORTH WEST ARROW TO LONG BAR
  • Decimal8632
  • 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+21B8 (↸) is NORTH WEST ARROW TO LONG BAR, 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 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 B83 bytes
UTF-1621B81 code unit
UTF-32000021B84 bytes
HTML decimal↸
HTML hex↸
CSS\21B8in content: "…"
JavaScript\u21B8
JSON\u21B8
Python\u21B8
Python\N{NORTH WEST ARROW TO LONG BAR}by name
Java / C#\u21B8
C / C++\u21B8universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{21B8}
Go\u21B8
Ruby\u21B8
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8632)
URL-encoded%E2%86%B8percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Arrows

All in block →
U+21B2↲Downwards Arrow with Tip Leftwards U+21B3↳Downwards Arrow with Tip Rightwards U+21B4↴Rightwards Arrow with Corner Downwards U+21B5↵Downwards Arrow with Corner Leftwards U+21B6↶Anticlockwise Top Semicircle Arrow U+21B7↷Clockwise Top Semicircle Arrow U+21B9↹Leftwards Arrow to Bar Over Rightwards Arrow to Bar U+21BA↺Anticlockwise Open Circle Arrow U+21BB↻Clockwise Open Circle Arrow U+21BC↼Leftwards Harpoon with Barb Upwards U+21BD↽Leftwards Harpoon with Barb Downwards U+21BE↾Upwards Harpoon with Barb Rightwards