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U+2B05 CHARACTER

LEFTWARDS BLACK ARROW

Quick Facts

Unicode Name LEFTWARDS BLACK ARROW
Code Point U+2B05
Decimal Value 11013
General Category Other Symbol (So) →
Unicode Block Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 4.0 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 3 bytes E2 AC 85
UTF-16 Code Unit 2B05
UTF-32 4 bytes 00002B05
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 2B 05 LE: 05 2B
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 2B 05 LE: 05 2B 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ⬅
HTML Hexadecimal ⬅
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \002B05
JavaScript (ES6) \u2B05
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u2B05
JSON Escape \u2B05
Python \u2B05
PHP "\u{2B05}"
Java "\u2B05"
C / C++ "\u2B05"
Rust '\u{2b05}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E2%AC%85

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+2B05 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 BLACK ARROW

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

Identifier U+2B05

Related Characters & Collections

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Emoji Equivalent Participates in emoji sequences as LEFT ARROW.
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Curated Symbol Collection Curated in CopyCharacter's LEFTWARDS BLACK ARROW symbol library.
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