U+2191 UPWARDS ARROW

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Decimal / Nº
8593
General Category
Block
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
ambiguous
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+2191, officially named UPWARDS ARROW, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Arrows block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as UP ARROW.

Categorized technically as a Math Symbol, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has ambiguous in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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8593 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 86 91 Copied!
UTF-16 21 91 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 21 91 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%86%91 Copied!
HTML hex reference ↑ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'2191' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u2191 Copied!
C and C++ \u2191 Copied!
C# \u2191 Copied!
CSS \002191 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8593) Copied!
Go \u2191 Copied!
JavaScript \u2191 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{2191} Copied!
JSON \u2191 Copied!
Java \u2191 Copied!
Lua \u{2191} Copied!
Matlab char(8593) Copied!
Perl \x{2191} Copied!
PHP \u{2191} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\2191' Copied!
PowerShell `u{2191} Copied!
Python \u2191 Copied!
Ruby \u{2191} Copied!
Rust \u{2191} Copied!