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U+2190 CHARACTER

LEFTWARDS ARROW

Quick Facts

Unicode Name LEFTWARDS ARROW
Code Point U+2190
Decimal Value 8592
General Category Math Symbol (Sm) →
Unicode Block Arrows →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 3 bytes E2 86 90
UTF-16 Code Unit 2190
UTF-32 4 bytes 00002190
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 21 90 LE: 90 21
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 21 90 LE: 90 21 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ←
HTML Hexadecimal ←
HTML Named Entity ←
CSS Escape \002190
JavaScript (ES6) \u2190
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u2190
JSON Escape \u2190
Python \u2190
PHP "\u{2190}"
Java "\u2190"
C / C++ "\u2190"
Rust '\u{2190}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E2%86%90

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class ONOther Neutral
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+2190 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
Context: A ← Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
Context: A ← Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
Context: A ← Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
Context: A ← Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name LEFTWARDS ARROW

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+2190

Related Characters & Collections

Curated Symbol Collection Curated in CopyCharacter's LEFTWARDS ARROW symbol library.
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