U+219C LEFTWARDS WAVE ARROW

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Decimal / Nº
8604
General Category
Block
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+219C, officially named LEFTWARDS WAVE 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 LEFT WAVE ARROW.

Categorized technically as a Other Symbol, this character typically falls under the Common 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 Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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8604 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 86 9C Copied!
UTF-16 21 9C Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 21 9C Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%86%9C Copied!
HTML hex reference ↜ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'219C' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u219C Copied!
C and C++ \u219c Copied!
C# \u219c Copied!
CSS \00219C Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8604) Copied!
Go \u219c Copied!
JavaScript \u219C Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{219c} Copied!
JSON \u219C Copied!
Java \u219C Copied!
Lua \u{219C} Copied!
Matlab char(8604) Copied!
Perl \x{219C} Copied!
PHP \u{219c} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\219C' Copied!
PowerShell `u{219C} Copied!
Python \u219c Copied!
Ruby \u{219c} Copied!
Rust \u{219c} Copied!