U+25C5 WHITE LEFT-POINTING POINTER

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Decimal / Nº
9669
General Category
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+25C5, officially named WHITE LEFT-POINTING POINTER, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Geometric Shapes block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as WHITE LEFT POINTING POINTER.

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 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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9669 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 97 85 Copied!
UTF-16 25 C5 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 25 C5 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%97%85 Copied!
HTML hex reference ◅ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'25C5' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u25C5 Copied!
C and C++ \u25c5 Copied!
C# \u25c5 Copied!
CSS \0025C5 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(9669) Copied!
Go \u25c5 Copied!
JavaScript \u25C5 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{25c5} Copied!
JSON \u25C5 Copied!
Java \u25C5 Copied!
Lua \u{25C5} Copied!
Matlab char(9669) Copied!
Perl \x{25C5} Copied!
PHP \u{25c5} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\25C5' Copied!
PowerShell `u{25C5} Copied!
Python \u25c5 Copied!
Ruby \u{25c5} Copied!
Rust \u{25c5} Copied!