White Left Pointing Index

U+261C
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+261C
Decimal
9756
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Symbol (So)
Script
Common
Bidi class
ON Other Neutral
East Asian Width
A Ambiguous

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 — White Left Pointing Index.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
☜
HTML Hex
☜
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 98 9C
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
26 1C
UTF-32 Hex
0000261C
CSS Escape
\261C
JavaScript Escape
\u261C
Python Escape
\u261C
URL Encoded
%E2%98%9C
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