What is the difference between Anticlockwise Open Circle Arrow and Circled Anticlockwise Arrow?

Anticlockwise Open Circle Arrow is U+21BA in the Arrows block. Circled Anticlockwise Arrow is U+1F10E in the Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Anticlockwise Open Circle Arrow?

The HTML entity for Anticlockwise Open Circle Arrow (U+21BA) is ↺.

What is the HTML entity for Circled Anticlockwise Arrow?

The HTML entity for Circled Anticlockwise Arrow (U+1F10E) is 🄎.

Are Anticlockwise Open Circle Arrow and Circled Anticlockwise Arrow the same Unicode character?

No. Anticlockwise Open Circle Arrow is U+21BA (decimal 8634) and Circled Anticlockwise Arrow is U+1F10E (decimal 127246). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Anticlockwise Open Circle Arrow and Circled Anticlockwise Arrow?

Anticlockwise Open Circle Arrow (U+21BA) encodes as E2 86 BA in UTF-8. Circled Anticlockwise Arrow (U+1F10E) encodes as F0 9F 84 8E in UTF-8.

Anticlockwise Open Circle Arrow vs Circled Anticlockwise Arrow

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

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Anticlockwise Open Circle Arrow

U+21BA

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🄎

Circled Anticlockwise Arrow

U+1F10E

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Property Comparison

Property	Anticlockwise Open Circle Arrow	Circled Anticlockwise Arrow
Codepoint	`U+21BA`	`U+1F10E`
Decimal	`8634`	`127246`
HTML Entity	`↺`	`🄎`
HTML Decimal	`↺`	`🄎`
HTML Hex	`↺`	`🄎`
UTF-8	`E2 86 BA`	`F0 9F 84 8E`
UTF-16	`21 BA`	`D8 3C DD 0E`
UTF-32	`000021BA`	`0001F10E`
CSS Escape	`\21BA`	`\1F10E`
JS Escape	`\u21BA`	`\uD83C\uDD0E`
Python Escape	`\u21BA`	`\U0001F10E`
URL Encoded	`%E2%86%BA`	`%F0%9F%84%8E`
Category	`Other Symbol (So)`	`Other Symbol (So)`
Block	`Arrows`	`Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement`
Script	`Common`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`ON`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`13.0`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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