U+21A9 Leftwards Arrow with Hook
U+21A9 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 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+21A9 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The CLDR project calls this character “right arrow curving left” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: arrow, curving, left, right.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as monochrome character on conforming platforms. To enable colorful emoji display, you can combine it with Variation Selector-16: ↩️ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
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 | 8617 |
| UTF-8 | E2 86 A9 |
| UTF-16 | 21 A9 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 21 A9 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%86%A9 |
| HTML hex reference | ↩ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ↩ |
| HTML named entity | ↩ |
| HTML named entity | ↩ |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 36 C8 39 |
| LATEX | \hookleftarrow |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| LEFTWARDS ARROW WITH HOOK | |
| LEFT ARROW WITH HOOK | |
| Arrows | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Leftwards Arrow with Hook | |
| ✘ | |
| Leftwards Arrow with Hook | |
| Leftwards Arrow with Hook | |
| ✘ | |
| Leftwards Arrow with Hook | |
| Leftwards Arrow with Hook | |
| Leftwards Arrow with Hook | |
| Leftwards Arrow with Hook | |
| Leftwards Arrow with Hook | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| Leftwards Arrow with Hook | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Leftwards Arrow with Hook | |
| Yes | |
| Leftwards Arrow with Hook | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Leftwards Arrow with Hook | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Leftwards Arrow with Hook | |
| R |