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U+21CD · LEFTWARDS DOUBLE ARROW WITH STROKE

Leftwards Double Arrow with Stroke

  • CodepointU+21CD
  • NameLEFTWARDS DOUBLE ARROW WITH STROKE
  • Decimal8653
  • 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+21CD (⇍) is LEFTWARDS DOUBLE ARROW WITH STROKE, 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).

It is precomposed. Under NFD it decomposes into U+21D0 ⇐ + 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 87 8D3 bytes
UTF-1621CD1 code unit
UTF-32000021CD4 bytes
HTML named⇍named character reference
HTML named⇍named character reference
HTML decimal⇍
HTML hex⇍
CSS\21CDin content: "…"
JavaScript\u21CD
JSON\u21CD
Python\u21CD
Python\N{LEFTWARDS DOUBLE ARROW WITH STROKE}by name
Java / C#\u21CD
C / C++\u21CDuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{21CD}
Go\u21CD
Ruby\u21CD
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8653)
URL-encoded%E2%87%8Dpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDU+21D0 ⇐ + U+0338 ◌̸
NFKCunchanged
NFKDU+21D0 ⇐ + U+0338 ◌̸
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Nearby in Arrows

All in block →
U+21C7⇇Leftwards Paired Arrows U+21C8⇈Upwards Paired Arrows U+21C9⇉Rightwards Paired Arrows U+21CA⇊Downwards Paired Arrows U+21CB⇋Leftwards Harpoon Over Rightwards Harpoon U+21CC⇌Rightwards Harpoon Over Leftwards Harpoon U+21CE⇎Left Right Double Arrow with Stroke U+21CF⇏Rightwards Double Arrow with Stroke U+21D0⇐Leftwards Double Arrow U+21D1⇑Upwards Double Arrow U+21D2⇒Rightwards Double Arrow U+21D3⇓Downwards Double Arrow