U+21AE LEFT RIGHT ARROW WITH STROKE

The Unicode character U+21AE, officially named LEFT RIGHT ARROW WITH STROKE, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Arrows block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Math Symbol, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is a canonical 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.