U+21A8 UP DOWN ARROW WITH BASE
U+21A8 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 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+21A8 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 “up down arrow with base” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: up down arrow with base.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Vertical may refer to:
- Vertical direction, the direction aligned with the direction of the force of gravity, up or down
- Vertical (angles), a pair of angles opposite each other, formed by two intersecting straight lines that form an "X"
- Vertical (music), a musical interval where the two notes sound simultaneously
- "Vertical", a type of wine tasting in which different vintages of the same wine type from the same winery are tasted
- Vertical Aerospace, stylised as "Vertical", British aerospace manufacturer
- Vertical Kilometer, a discipline of skyrunning
- Vertical market, a market in which vendors offer goods and services specific to an industry
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 8616 |
| UTF-8 | E2 86 A8 |
| UTF-16 | 21 A8 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 21 A8 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%86%A8 |
| HTML-Escape | ↨ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ⨠|
| AGL: Latin-5 | arrowupdnbse |
| Adobe Glyph List | arrowupdnbse |
| Adobe Glyph List | arrowupdownbase |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
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| 1.1 (1993) | |
| UP DOWN ARROW WITH BASE | |
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| Arrows | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Up Down Arrow with Base | |
| ✘ | |
| Up Down Arrow with Base | |
| Up Down Arrow with Base | |
| ✘ | |
| Up Down Arrow with Base | |
| Up Down Arrow with Base | |
| Up Down Arrow with Base | |
| Up Down Arrow with Base | |
| Up Down Arrow with Base | |
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| Up Down Arrow with Base | |
| Any | |
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| NA | |
| Other | |
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| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Up Down Arrow with Base | |
| Yes | |
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| Up Down Arrow with Base | |
| None | |
| Neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Up Down Arrow with Base | |
| R |