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Glyph for U+21BC
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U+21BC Leftwards Harpoon with Barb Upwards

U+21BC was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+2190 to U+21FF Arrows in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+21BC behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The CLDR project labels this character “leftwards harpoon barb upwards” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: barb.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

An arrow is a graphical symbol, such as ← or →, or a pictogram, used to point or indicate direction. In its simplest form, an arrow is a triangle, chevron, or concave kite, usually affixed to a line segment or rectangle, and in more complex forms a representation of an actual arrow (e.g. ➵ U+27B5). The direction indicated by an arrow is the one along the length of the line or rectangle toward the single pointed end.

Representations

System Representation
8636
UTF-8 E2 86 BC
UTF-16 21 BC
UTF-32 00 00 21 BC
URL-Quoted %E2%86%BC
HTML hex reference ↼
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ↼
HTML named entity ↼
HTML named entity ↼
HTML named entity ↼
LATEX \leftharpoonup
Adobe Glyph List harpoonleftbarbup

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name LEFTWARDS HARPOON WITH BARB UPWARDS
Unicode 1 Name LEFT HARPOON WITH BARB UP
Block Arrows
General Category Other Symbol
Script Common
Bidirectional Category Other Neutral
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+21BC Leftwards Harpoon with Barb Upwards
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+21BC Leftwards Harpoon with Barb Upwards
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+21BC Leftwards Harpoon with Barb Upwards
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+21BC Leftwards Harpoon with Barb Upwards
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+21BC Leftwards Harpoon with Barb Upwards
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+21BC Leftwards Harpoon with Barb Upwards
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+21BC Leftwards Harpoon with Barb Upwards
Case Folding Glyph for U+21BC Leftwards Harpoon with Barb Upwards
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+21BC Leftwards Harpoon with Barb Upwards
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+21BC Leftwards Harpoon with Barb Upwards
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+21BC Leftwards Harpoon with Barb Upwards
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Other
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Other
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+21BC Leftwards Harpoon with Barb Upwards
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+21BC Leftwards Harpoon with Barb Upwards
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R