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Downwards Harpoon with Barb Left to Bar HTML entity ⥙
⥙: HTML entity for Downwards Harpoon with Barb Left to Bar ⥙ (U+2959), with decimal, hex, CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL codes to copy.
- Entity
⥙- Code point
- U+2959
- Unicode name
- DOWNWARDS HARPOON WITH BARB LEFT TO BAR
- Block
- Supplemental Arrows-B
- Category
- Math symbol (Sm)
- Since
- Unicode 3.2
- Defined in
- HTML5
Codes to copy
| HTML named | ⥙Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined. | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML decimal | ⥙Works in HTML and XML. | |
| HTML hex | ⥙Works in HTML and XML. | |
| CSS | content: "\2959";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u2959"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u2959"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{DOWNWARDS HARPOON WITH BARB LEFT TO BAR}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %E2%A5%99Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 A5 993 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 29591 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
⥙ writes U+2959 (Downwards Harpoon with Barb Left to Bar), a maths symbol from the Unicode Supplemental Arrows-B block, encoded since Unicode 3.2. Specialist notation like this usually belongs in MathML, which positions it correctly; the entity is for occasional use in running text.
The name comes from the HTML5 list (much of it shared with MathML), so it works in every current browser but not in XML or XHTML served as XML, where the numeric reference is the safe choice.
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).