U+21A1 Downwards Two Headed Arrow
U+21A1 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Arrows in the 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 form feed and fast cursor down.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+21A1 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The CLDR project calls this character “downwards two headed arrow” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: arrow, downwards, headed, two.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A page break is a marker in an electronic document that tells the document interpreter that the content which follows is part of a new page. A page break causes a form feed to be sent to the printer during spooling of the document to the printer. Thus it is one of the elements that contributes to pagination.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 8609 |
| UTF-8 | E2 86 A1 |
| UTF-16 | 21 A1 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 21 A1 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%86%A1 |
| HTML hex reference | ↡ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ↡ |
| HTML named entity | ↡ |
| alias | form feed |
| alias | fast cursor down |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 36 C8 31 |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| DOWNWARDS TWO HEADED ARROW | |
| DOWN TWO HEADED ARROW | |
| Arrows | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Downwards Two Headed Arrow | |
| ✘ | |
| Downwards Two Headed Arrow | |
| Downwards Two Headed Arrow | |
| ✘ | |
| Downwards Two Headed Arrow | |
| Downwards Two Headed Arrow | |
| Downwards Two Headed Arrow | |
| Downwards Two Headed Arrow | |
| Downwards Two Headed Arrow | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Downwards Two Headed Arrow | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Downwards Two Headed Arrow | |
| Yes | |
| Downwards Two Headed Arrow | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Downwards Two Headed Arrow | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Downwards Two Headed Arrow | |
| R |