U+21B8 NORTH WEST ARROW TO LONG BAR

The Unicode character U+21B8, officially named NORTH WEST ARROW TO LONG BAR, 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 UPPER LEFT ARROW TO LONG BAR.

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 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.