U+21AA RIGHTWARDS ARROW WITH HOOK

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Decimal / Nº
8618
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+21AA, officially named RIGHTWARDS ARROW WITH HOOK, 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 HOOK.

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.

As an officially designated emoji, this character can be displayed in colorful graphical formats on supported platforms. To explicitly request the colorful emoji presentation rather than a standard monochrome text symbol, developers can append the Variation Selector-16 (U+FE0F) directly after the character.

Representations & Encodings

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8618 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 86 AA Copied!
UTF-16 21 AA Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 21 AA Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%86%AA Copied!
HTML hex reference ↪ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'21AA' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u21AA Copied!
C and C++ \u21aa Copied!
C# \u21aa Copied!
CSS \0021AA Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8618) Copied!
Go \u21aa Copied!
JavaScript \u21AA Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{21aa} Copied!
JSON \u21AA Copied!
Java \u21AA Copied!
Lua \u{21AA} Copied!
Matlab char(8618) Copied!
Perl \x{21AA} Copied!
PHP \u{21aa} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\21AA' Copied!
PowerShell `u{21AA} Copied!
Python \u21aa Copied!
Ruby \u{21aa} Copied!
Rust \u{21aa} Copied!