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Glyph for U+21F1
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U+21F1 North West Arrow To Corner

U+21F1 was added in Unicode version 3.0 in 1999. It belongs to the block U+2190 to U+21FF Arrows in the U+0000 to U+FFFF 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 home.

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+21F1 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The Home key is commonly found on desktop and laptop keyboards. The key has the opposite effect of the End key. In limited-size keyboards where the Home key is missing the same functionality can be reached via the key combination of Fn+←.

Its standard symbol ⇱ from ISO/IEC 9995-7, i.e. U+21F1 ⇱ NORTH WEST ARROW TO CORNER, is used on some full-size keyboards instead of a possibly localized text label.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 8689
UTF-8 E2 87 B1
UTF-16 21 F1
UTF-32 00 00 21 F1
URL-Quoted %E2%87%B1
HTML hex reference ⇱
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ⇱
alias home
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 81 36 D0 31

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 3.0 (1999)
Unicode Name (na) NORTH WEST ARROW TO CORNER
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) Arrows
General Category (gc) Other Symbol
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+21F1 North West Arrow To Corner
Lowercase (Lower) ✘︎
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+21F1 North West Arrow To Corner
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+21F1 North West Arrow To Corner
Uppercase (Upper) ✘︎
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+21F1 North West Arrow To Corner
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+21F1 North West Arrow To Corner
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+21F1 North West Arrow To Corner
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+21F1 North West Arrow To Corner
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+21F1 North West Arrow To Corner
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘︎
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✘︎
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘︎
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘︎
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘︎
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘︎
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘︎
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘︎
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✘︎
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘︎
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘︎
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘︎
Cased (Cased) ✘︎
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘︎
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘︎
Dash (Dash) ✘︎
Deprecated (Dep) ✘︎
Diacritic (Dia) ✘︎
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘︎
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘︎
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘︎
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘︎
Emoji (Emoji) ✘︎
Extender (Ext) ✘︎
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘︎
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+21F1 North West Arrow To Corner
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔︎
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘︎
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘︎
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘︎
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘︎
ID Continue (IDC) ✘︎
ID Start (IDS) ✘︎
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘︎
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘︎
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘︎
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘︎
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘︎
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM) ✘︎
Math (Math) ✘︎
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘︎
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+21F1 North West Arrow To Corner
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+21F1 North West Arrow To Corner
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘︎
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘︎
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘︎
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘︎
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘︎
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘︎
Other Math (OMath) ✘︎
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘︎
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘︎
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✔︎
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘︎
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘︎
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘︎
Radical (Radical) ✘︎
Sentence Break (SB) Other
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘︎
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘︎
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘︎
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘︎
Variation Selector (VS) ✘︎
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace) ✘︎
XID Continue (XIDC) ✘︎
XID Start (XIDS) ✘︎
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘︎
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘︎
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘︎
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘︎
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+21F1 North West Arrow To Corner
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+21F1 North West Arrow To Corner
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R