U+21A6 Rightwards Arrow From Bar
U+21A6 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
This character is a Math Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as z notation maplet.
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+21A6 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 “rightwards arrow from bar” for use in screen reading software.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A maplet or maplet arrow (symbol: ↦, commonly pronounced "maps to") is a symbol consisting of a vertical line with a rightward-facing arrow. It is used in mathematics and in computer science to denote functions (the expression x ↦ y is also called a maplet). One example of use of the maplet is in Z notation, a formal specification language used in software development.
In the Unicode character set, the maplet is at the point U+21A6.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 8614 |
UTF-8 | E2 86 A6 |
UTF-16 | 21 A6 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 21 A6 |
URL-Quoted | %E2%86%A6 |
HTML hex reference | ↦ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ↦ |
HTML named entity | ↦ |
HTML named entity | ↦ |
HTML named entity | ↦ |
alias | z notation maplet |
LATEX | \mapsto |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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1.1 (1993) | |
RIGHTWARDS ARROW FROM BAR | |
RIGHT ARROW FROM BAR | |
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NA | |
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Yes | |
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Other | |
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