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U+261C · WHITE LEFT POINTING INDEX

White Left Pointing Index

  • CodepointU+261C
  • NameWHITE LEFT POINTING INDEX
  • Decimal9756
  • BlockMiscellaneous Symbols (U+2600–U+26FF)
  • 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+261C (☜) is WHITE LEFT POINTING INDEX, a symbol in the Miscellaneous Symbols 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 98 9C3 bytes
UTF-16261C1 code unit
UTF-320000261C4 bytes
HTML decimal☜
HTML hex☜
CSS\261Cin content: "…"
JavaScript\u261C
JSON\u261C
Python\u261C
Python\N{WHITE LEFT POINTING INDEX}by name
Java / C#\u261C
C / C++\u261Cuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{261C}
Go\u261C
Ruby\u261C
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9756)
URL-encoded%E2%98%9Cpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Miscellaneous Symbols

All in block →
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