U+21A7 Downwards Arrow From Bar
U+21A7 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (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 depth symbol.
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+21A7 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 from bar” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: downwards arrow from bar.
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 |
|---|---|
| Nº | 8615 |
| UTF-8 | E2 86 A7 |
| UTF-16 | 21 A7 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 21 A7 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%86%A7 |
| HTML hex reference | ↧ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ↧ |
| HTML named entity | ↧ |
| HTML named entity | ↧ |
| alias | depth symbol |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| DOWNWARDS ARROW FROM BAR | |
| DOWN ARROW FROM BAR | |
| Arrows | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Downwards Arrow From Bar | |
| ✘ | |
| Downwards Arrow From Bar | |
| Downwards Arrow From Bar | |
| ✘ | |
| Downwards Arrow From Bar | |
| Downwards Arrow From Bar | |
| Downwards Arrow From Bar | |
| Downwards Arrow From Bar | |
| Downwards Arrow From Bar | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Downwards Arrow From Bar | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Downwards Arrow From Bar | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Downwards Arrow From Bar | |
| None | |
| Neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Downwards Arrow From Bar | |
| R |