U+21E7 UPWARDS WHITE ARROW

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Decimal / Nº
8679
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+21E7, officially named UPWARDS WHITE ARROW, 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 WHITE UP ARROW.

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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8679 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 87 A7 Copied!
UTF-16 21 E7 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 21 E7 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%87%A7 Copied!
HTML hex reference ⇧ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'21E7' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u21E7 Copied!
C and C++ \u21e7 Copied!
C# \u21e7 Copied!
CSS \0021E7 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8679) Copied!
Go \u21e7 Copied!
JavaScript \u21E7 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{21e7} Copied!
JSON \u21E7 Copied!
Java \u21E7 Copied!
Lua \u{21E7} Copied!
Matlab char(8679) Copied!
Perl \x{21E7} Copied!
PHP \u{21e7} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\21E7' Copied!
PowerShell `u{21E7} Copied!
Python \u21e7 Copied!
Ruby \u{21e7} Copied!
Rust \u{21e7} Copied!