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Anticlockwise Open Circle Arrow HTML entity ↺
↺ is the HTML entity for Anticlockwise Open Circle Arrow ↺ (U+21BA). Copy ↺, ↺ and the CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
↺- Also written
↺- Code point
- U+21BA
- Unicode name
- ANTICLOCKWISE OPEN CIRCLE ARROW
- 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: "\21BA";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u21BA"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u21ba"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{ANTICLOCKWISE OPEN CIRCLE ARROW}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %E2%86%BAPercent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 86 BA3 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 21BA1 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
↺ writes U+21BA (Anticlockwise Open Circle Arrow), 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
↼Leftwards Harpoon with Barb Upwards↶Anticlockwise Top Semicircle Arrow↽Leftwards Harpoon with Barb Downwards↵Carriage Return Arrow↾Upwards Harpoon with Barb Rightwards↳Downwards Arrow with Tip Rightwards↿Upwards Harpoon with Barb Leftwards↲Downwards Arrow with Tip Leftwards
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).