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Glyph for U+21DF
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U+21DF Downwards Arrow with Double Stroke

U+21DF 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 character is also known as page down.

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+21DF 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 “downwards arrow double stroke” for use in screen reading software.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The Page Up and Page Down keys (sometimes abbreviated as PgUp and PgDn) are two keys commonly found on computer keyboards.

The two keys are primarily used to scroll up or down in documents, but the scrolling distance varies between different applications. In word processors, for instance, they may jump by an emulated physical page or by a screen view that may show only part of one page or many pages at once depending on zoom factor. In cases when the document is shorter than the full screen, Page Up and Page Down often have no visible effect at all.

Operating systems differ as to whether the keys (pressed without modifier) simply move the view – e.g. in Mac OS X – or also the input caret – e.g. in Microsoft Windows. In right-to-left settings, PgUp will move either upwards or rightwards (instead of left) and PgDn will move down or leftwards (instead of right). The keys have been dubbed previous page and next page, accordingly.

The arrow keys and the scroll wheel can also be used to scroll a document, although usually by smaller incremental distances. Used together with a modifier key, such as Alt, ⌥ Opt, ^Ctrl or a combination thereof, they may act the same as the Page keys.

In most operating systems, if the Page Up or Page Down key is pressed along with the ⇧ Shift key in editable text, all the text scrolled over will be highlighted.

In some applications, the Page Up and Page Down keys behave differently in caret navigation (toggled with the F7 function key in Windows). For a claimed 30% of people, the paging keys move the text in the opposite direction to what they find natural, and software may contain settings to reverse the operation of these keys to accommodate that.

In August 2008, Microsoft received the US patent #7,415,666 for the functions of the two keys – Page Up & Page Down.

Representations

System Representation
8671
UTF-8 E2 87 9F
UTF-16 21 DF
UTF-32 00 00 21 DF
URL-Quoted %E2%87%9F
HTML hex reference ⇟
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ⇟
alias page down
Adobe Glyph List pagedown

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name DOWNWARDS ARROW WITH DOUBLE STROKE
Unicode 1 Name DOWN ARROW WITH DOUBLE STROKE
Block Arrows
General Category Other Symbol
Script Common
Bidirectional Category Other Neutral
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+21DF Downwards Arrow with Double Stroke
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+21DF Downwards Arrow with Double Stroke
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+21DF Downwards Arrow with Double Stroke
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+21DF Downwards Arrow with Double Stroke
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+21DF Downwards Arrow with Double Stroke
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+21DF Downwards Arrow with Double Stroke
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+21DF Downwards Arrow with Double Stroke
Case Folding Glyph for U+21DF Downwards Arrow with Double Stroke
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+21DF Downwards Arrow with Double Stroke
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+21DF Downwards Arrow with Double Stroke
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+21DF Downwards Arrow with Double Stroke
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+21DF Downwards Arrow with Double Stroke
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+21DF Downwards Arrow with Double Stroke
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R