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Downwards Arrow with Tip Leftwards HTML entity ↲
↲ is the HTML entity for Downwards Arrow with Tip Leftwards ↲ (U+21B2). Copy ↲, ↲ and the CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
↲- Code point
- U+21B2
- Unicode name
- DOWNWARDS ARROW WITH TIP LEFTWARDS
- 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: "\21B2";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u21B2"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u21b2"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{DOWNWARDS ARROW WITH TIP LEFTWARDS}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %E2%86%B2Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 86 B23 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 21B21 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
↲ writes U+21B2 (Downwards Arrow with Tip Leftwards), 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
↵Carriage Return Arrow↰Upwards Arrow with Tip Leftwards↶Anticlockwise Top Semicircle Arrow↮Left Right Arrow with Stroke↷Clockwise Top Semicircle Arrow↭Left Right Wave Arrow↺Anticlockwise Open Circle Arrow↬Rightwards Arrow with Loop
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).