Up Down Arrow HTML entity &varr;

&varr; is the HTML entity for Up Down Arrow ↕ (U+2195). Copy the decimal ↕ and hex ↕ codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.

Entity: &varr;
Also written: &UpDownArrow; &updownarrow;
Code point: U+2195
Unicode name: UP DOWN ARROW
Block: Arrows
Category: Other symbol (So)
Since: Unicode 1.1
Defined in: HTML5

Codes to copy

HTML named	`&varr;`Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined.
HTML decimal	`↕`Works in HTML and XML.
HTML hex	`↕`Works in HTML and XML.
CSS	`content: "\2195";`In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after.
JavaScript	`"\u2195"`Also valid in JSON.
Python	`"\u2195"`Python 3 string literal.
Python by name	`"\N{UP DOWN ARROW}"`Readable alternative using the Unicode name.
URL	`%E2%86%95`Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value.
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 86 95`3 bytes.
UTF-16	`2195`1 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts.

When to use it

&varr; writes U+2195 (Up Down 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.

This character also has an emoji form: ↕️ Up-down Arrow. Add U+FE0F after it for the emoji style or U+FE0E for the text style.

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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).