U+21CD LEFTWARDS DOUBLE ARROW WITH STROKE

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Decimal / Nº
8653
General Category
Block
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
a canonical composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+21CD, officially named LEFTWARDS DOUBLE ARROW WITH STROKE, 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 DOUBLE ARROW WITH STROKE.

Categorized technically as a Other 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.

Representations & Encodings

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8653 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 87 8D Copied!
UTF-16 21 CD Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 21 CD Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%87%8D Copied!
HTML hex reference ⇍ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'21CD' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u21CD Copied!
C and C++ \u21cd Copied!
C# \u21cd Copied!
CSS \0021CD Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8653) Copied!
Go \u21cd Copied!
JavaScript \u21CD Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{21cd} Copied!
JSON \u21CD Copied!
Java \u21CD Copied!
Lua \u{21CD} Copied!
Matlab char(8653) Copied!
Perl \x{21CD} Copied!
PHP \u{21cd} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\21CD' Copied!
PowerShell `u{21CD} Copied!
Python \u21cd Copied!
Ruby \u{21cd} Copied!
Rust \u{21cd} Copied!