Downwards Harpoon with Barb Left Beside Downwards Harpoon with Barb Right HTML entity ⥥

⥥ is the HTML entity for Downwards Harpoon with Barb Left Beside Downwards Harpoon with Barb Right ⥥ (U+2965). Copy the decimal ⥥ and hex.

Entity
⥥
Code point
U+2965
Unicode name
DOWNWARDS HARPOON WITH BARB LEFT BESIDE DOWNWARDS HARPOON WITH BARB RIGHT
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.
CSScontent: "\2965";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after.
JavaScript"\u2965"Also valid in JSON.
Python"\u2965"Python 3 string literal.
Python by name"\N{DOWNWARDS HARPOON WITH BARB LEFT BESIDE DOWNWARDS HARPOON WITH BARB RIGHT}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name.
URL%E2%A5%A5Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value.
UTF-8 bytesE2 A5 A53 bytes.
UTF-1629651 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts.

When to use it

⥥ writes U+2965 (Downwards Harpoon with Barb Left Beside Downwards Harpoon with Barb Right), 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).