U+21EA UPWARDS WHITE ARROW FROM BAR
U+21EA 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 character is also known as caps lock.
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+21EA 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 “upwards hollow arrow from bar” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: upwards hollow arrow from bar.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Caps Lock ⇪ Caps Lock is a button on a computer keyboard that causes all letters of bicameral scripts to be generated in capital letters. It is a toggle key: each press reverses the previous action. Some keyboards also implement a light, to give visual feedback about whether it is on or off. Exactly what Caps Lock does depends on the keyboard hardware, the operating system, the device driver, and the keyboard layout. Usually, the effect is limited to letter keys. Letters of non-bicameral scripts (e.g. Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi) and non-letter characters are generated normally.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 8682 |
| UTF-8 | E2 87 AA |
| UTF-16 | 21 EA |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 21 EA |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%87%AA |
| HTML-Escape | ⇪ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ⪠|
| alias | caps lock |
| Adobe Glyph List | capslock |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| UPWARDS WHITE ARROW FROM BAR | |
| WHITE UP ARROW FROM BAR | |
| Arrows | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Upwards White Arrow From Bar | |
| ✘ | |
| Upwards White Arrow From Bar | |
| Upwards White Arrow From Bar | |
| ✘ | |
| Upwards White Arrow From Bar | |
| Upwards White Arrow From Bar | |
| Upwards White Arrow From Bar | |
| Upwards White Arrow From Bar | |
| Upwards White Arrow From Bar | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Upwards White Arrow From Bar | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Upwards White Arrow From Bar | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
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| Other | |
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| Other | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Upwards White Arrow From Bar | |
| None | |
| Neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Upwards White Arrow From Bar | |
| R |