U+21AB Leftwards Arrow with Loop
U+21AB 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+21AB forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The CLDR project calls this character “leftwards arrow loop” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: arrow, leftwards, loop.
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 | 8619 |
| UTF-8 | E2 86 AB |
| UTF-16 | 21 AB |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 21 AB |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%86%AB |
| HTML hex reference | ↫ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ↫ |
| HTML named entity | ↫ |
| HTML named entity | ↫ |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 36 C9 31 |
| LATEX | \looparrowleft |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| LEFTWARDS ARROW WITH LOOP | |
| LEFT ARROW WITH LOOP | |
| Arrows | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Leftwards Arrow with Loop | |
| ✘ | |
| Leftwards Arrow with Loop | |
| Leftwards Arrow with Loop | |
| ✘ | |
| Leftwards Arrow with Loop | |
| Leftwards Arrow with Loop | |
| Leftwards Arrow with Loop | |
| Leftwards Arrow with Loop | |
| Leftwards Arrow with Loop | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Leftwards Arrow with Loop | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Leftwards Arrow with Loop | |
| Yes | |
| Leftwards Arrow with Loop | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Leftwards Arrow with Loop | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Leftwards Arrow with Loop | |
| R |