Leftwards Triple Dash Arrow HTML entity &lBarr;

&lBarr; is the HTML entity for Leftwards Triple Dash Arrow ⤎ (U+290E). Copy ⤎, ⤎ and the CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.

Entity: &lBarr;
Code point: U+290E
Unicode name: LEFTWARDS TRIPLE DASH ARROW
Block: Supplemental Arrows-B
Category: Math symbol (Sm)
Since: Unicode 3.2
Defined in: HTML5

Codes to copy

HTML named	`&lBarr;`Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined.
HTML decimal	`⤎`Works in HTML and XML.
HTML hex	`⤎`Works in HTML and XML.
CSS	`content: "\290E";`In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after.
JavaScript	`"\u290E"`Also valid in JSON.
Python	`"\u290e"`Python 3 string literal.
Python by name	`"\N{LEFTWARDS TRIPLE DASH ARROW}"`Readable alternative using the Unicode name.
URL	`%E2%A4%8E`Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value.
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 A4 8E`3 bytes.
UTF-16	`290E`1 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts.

When to use it

&lBarr; writes U+290E (Leftwards Triple Dash Arrow), 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).