Downwards Two Headed Arrow

U+21A1
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character
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Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+21A1
Decimal
8609
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Symbol (So)
Block
Arrows
Script
Common
Bidi class
ON Other Neutral
East Asian Width
N Narrow
Properties
Math

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Downwards Two Headed Arrow.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
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HTML Hex
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UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 86 A1
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
21 A1
UTF-32 Hex
000021A1
CSS Escape
\21A1
JavaScript Escape
\u21A1
Python Escape
\u21A1
URL Encoded
%E2%86%A1
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