U+20D6 COMBINING LEFT ARROW ABOVE

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Decimal / Nº
8406
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Unknown
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
230
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+20D6, officially named COMBINING LEFT ARROW ABOVE, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Diacriticals For Symbols block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as NON-SPACING LEFT ARROW ABOVE.

Categorized technically as a Nonspacing Mark, this character typically falls under the Zinh script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Unknown character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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8406 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 83 96 Copied!
UTF-16 20 D6 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 20 D6 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%83%96 Copied!
HTML hex reference ⃖ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'20D6' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u20D6 Copied!
C and C++ \u20d6 Copied!
C# \u20d6 Copied!
CSS \0020D6 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8406) Copied!
Go \u20d6 Copied!
JavaScript \u20D6 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{20d6} Copied!
JSON \u20D6 Copied!
Java \u20D6 Copied!
Lua \u{20D6} Copied!
Matlab char(8406) Copied!
Perl \x{20D6} Copied!
PHP \u{20d6} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\20D6' Copied!
PowerShell `u{20D6} Copied!
Python \u20d6 Copied!
Ruby \u{20d6} Copied!
Rust \u{20d6} Copied!