U+21A3 RIGHTWARDS ARROW WITH TAIL

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Decimal / Nº
8611
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+21A3, officially named RIGHTWARDS ARROW WITH TAIL, 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 RIGHT ARROW WITH TAIL.

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 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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8611 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 86 A3 Copied!
UTF-16 21 A3 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 21 A3 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%86%A3 Copied!
HTML hex reference ↣ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'21A3' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u21A3 Copied!
C and C++ \u21a3 Copied!
C# \u21a3 Copied!
CSS \0021A3 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8611) Copied!
Go \u21a3 Copied!
JavaScript \u21A3 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{21a3} Copied!
JSON \u21A3 Copied!
Java \u21A3 Copied!
Lua \u{21A3} Copied!
Matlab char(8611) Copied!
Perl \x{21A3} Copied!
PHP \u{21a3} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\21A3' Copied!
PowerShell `u{21A3} Copied!
Python \u21a3 Copied!
Ruby \u{21a3} Copied!
Rust \u{21a3} Copied!