U+21FF LEFT RIGHT OPEN-HEADED ARROW

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Decimal / Nº
8703
General Category
Block
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+21FF, officially named LEFT RIGHT OPEN-HEADED ARROW, was introduced in Unicode version 3.2. 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 not a 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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8703 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 87 BF Copied!
UTF-16 21 FF Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 21 FF Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%87%BF Copied!
HTML hex reference ⇿ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'21FF' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u21FF Copied!
C and C++ \u21ff Copied!
C# \u21ff Copied!
CSS \0021FF Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8703) Copied!
Go \u21ff Copied!
JavaScript \u21FF Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{21ff} Copied!
JSON \u21FF Copied!
Java \u21FF Copied!
Lua \u{21FF} Copied!
Matlab char(8703) Copied!
Perl \x{21FF} Copied!
PHP \u{21ff} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\21FF' Copied!
PowerShell `u{21FF} Copied!
Python \u21ff Copied!
Ruby \u{21ff} Copied!
Rust \u{21ff} Copied!