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Downwards Paired Arrows HTML entity ⇊
⇊ is the HTML entity for Downwards Paired Arrows ⇊ (U+21CA). Copy ⇊, ⇊ and the CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
⇊- Also written
⇊- Code point
- U+21CA
- Unicode name
- DOWNWARDS PAIRED ARROWS
- Block
- Arrows
- Category
- Other symbol (So)
- Since
- Unicode 1.1
- 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: "\21CA";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u21CA"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u21ca"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{DOWNWARDS PAIRED ARROWS}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %E2%87%8APercent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 87 8A3 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 21CA1 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
⇊ writes U+21CA (Downwards Paired Arrows), a symbol from the Unicode Arrows block, encoded since Unicode 1.1. Arrow shapes vary a lot between fonts; when an arrow is the only content of a link or button, give it a text label as well.
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.
More arrows
⇌Rightwards Harpoon over Leftwards Harpoon⇈Upwards Paired Arrows⇍Leftwards Double Arrow with Stroke⇇Leftwards Paired Arrows⇎Left Right Double Arrow with Stroke⇆Leftwards Arrow over Rightwards Arrow⇏Rightwards Double Arrow with Stroke⇅Upwards Arrow Leftwards of Downwards Arrow
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).