U+21B9 LEFTWARDS ARROW TO BAR OVER RIGHTWARDS ARROW TO BAR

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Decimal / Nº
8633
General Category
Block
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
ambiguous
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+21B9, officially named LEFTWARDS ARROW TO BAR OVER RIGHTWARDS ARROW TO 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 LEFT ARROW TO BAR OVER RIGHT ARROW TO 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.

Representations & Encodings

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8633 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 86 B9 Copied!
UTF-16 21 B9 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 21 B9 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%86%B9 Copied!
HTML hex reference ↹ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'21B9' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u21B9 Copied!
C and C++ \u21b9 Copied!
C# \u21b9 Copied!
CSS \0021B9 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8633) Copied!
Go \u21b9 Copied!
JavaScript \u21B9 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{21b9} Copied!
JSON \u21B9 Copied!
Java \u21B9 Copied!
Lua \u{21B9} Copied!
Matlab char(8633) Copied!
Perl \x{21B9} Copied!
PHP \u{21b9} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\21B9' Copied!
PowerShell `u{21B9} Copied!
Python \u21b9 Copied!
Ruby \u{21b9} Copied!
Rust \u{21b9} Copied!