U+21E4 Leftwards Arrow To Bar
U+21E4 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as leftward tab.
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+21E4 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 “leftwards arrow bar” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: leftwards arrow bar.
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 | 8676 |
UTF-8 | E2 87 A4 |
UTF-16 | 21 E4 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 21 E4 |
URL-Quoted | %E2%87%A4 |
HTML-Escape | ⇤ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ⤠|
HTML-Escape | ⇤ |
HTML-Escape | ⇤ |
alias | leftward tab |
Adobe Glyph List | arrowtableft |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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1.1 (1993) | |
LEFTWARDS ARROW TO BAR | |
LEFT ARROW TO BAR | |
Arrows | |
Other Symbol | |
Common | |
Other Neutral | |
Not Reordered | |
None | |
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Any | |
✔ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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NA | |
Other | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
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Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
Yes | |
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✔ | |
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Other | |
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✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
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None | |
Neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Alphabetic | |
None | |
not a number | |
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