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U+21BF · UPWARDS HARPOON WITH BARB LEFTWARDS

Upwards Harpoon with Barb Leftwards

  • CodepointU+21BF
  • NameUPWARDS HARPOON WITH BARB LEFTWARDS
  • Decimal8639
  • 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+21BF (↿) is UPWARDS HARPOON WITH BARB LEFTWARDS, 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).

How to type ↿

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 86 BF3 bytes
UTF-1621BF1 code unit
UTF-32000021BF4 bytes
HTML named↿named character reference
HTML named↿named character reference
HTML named↿named character reference
HTML decimal↿
HTML hex↿
CSS\21BFin content: "…"
JavaScript\u21BF
JSON\u21BF
Python\u21BF
Python\N{UPWARDS HARPOON WITH BARB LEFTWARDS}by name
Java / C#\u21BF
C / C++\u21BFuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{21BF}
Go\u21BF
Ruby\u21BF
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8639)
URL-encoded%E2%86%BFpercent-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+16D0ᛐRunic Letter Short-Twig-Tyr T
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Nearby in Arrows

All in block →
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 U+21C0⇀Rightwards Harpoon with Barb Upwards U+21C1⇁Rightwards Harpoon with Barb Downwards U+21C2⇂Downwards Harpoon with Barb Rightwards U+21C3⇃Downwards Harpoon with Barb Leftwards U+21C4⇄Rightwards Arrow Over Leftwards Arrow U+21C5⇅Upwards Arrow Leftwards of Downwards Arrow