Upwards Harpoon With Barb Leftwards

U+21BF
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character
Decimal ↿
Hex ↿

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+21BF
Decimal
8639
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

Looks Like (Confusables)

Characters that are visually similar — relevant for security, font design, and homoglyph detection.

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 — Upwards Harpoon With Barb Leftwards.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
↿
HTML Hex
↿
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 86 BF
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
21 BF
UTF-32 Hex
000021BF
CSS Escape
\21BF
JavaScript Escape
\u21BF
Python Escape
\u21BF
URL Encoded
%E2%86%BF
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