U+21C6 Leftwards Arrow Over Rightwards Arrow
U+21C6 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
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+21C6 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The CLDR project calls this character “left-pointing over right-pointing arrows” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: arrow, arrows, left, left-pointing, over, right, right-pointing.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The tab key Tab ↹ (abbreviation of tabulator key or tabular key) on a keyboard is used to advance the cursor to the next tab stop.
Representations
| System | Representation |
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| Nº | 8646 |
| UTF-8 | E2 87 86 |
| UTF-16 | 21 C6 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 21 C6 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%87%86 |
| HTML hex reference | ⇆ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ⇆ |
| HTML named entity | ⇆ |
| HTML named entity | ⇆ |
| HTML named entity | ⇆ |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 36 CB 38 |
| LATEX | \leftrightarrows |
| Adobe Glyph List | arrowleftoverright |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
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| 1.1 (1993) | |
| LEFTWARDS ARROW OVER RIGHTWARDS ARROW | |
| LEFT ARROW OVER RIGHT ARROW | |
| Arrows | |
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