/* Code Comments */arrows! left and right
2020-05-16
|~3 min read
|417 words
Two fun little websites that are great resources for unicode left and right arrows:
- right-arrow.net
- left-arrow.net
Here are the tables (with some extra details filled in):
Right Arrows
| Encoding | → | ⇒ | ↬ | ⇉ | ⇨ | ⇥ | ⇢ | ↪ | ↦ | ⇶ | ↣ | ⇰ | ↝ | ↠ | ⇾ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode, hex | U+02192 |
U+021d2 |
U+021ac |
U+021c9 |
U+021e8 |
U+021e5 |
U+021e2 |
U+021aa |
U+021a6 |
U+021f6 |
U+021a3 |
U+021f0 |
U+0219d |
U+021a0 |
U+021fe |
| Unicode, dec | 8594 |
8658 |
8620 |
8649 |
8680 |
8677 |
8674 |
8618 |
8614 |
8694 |
8611 |
8688 |
8605 |
8608 |
8702 |
| HTML | → |
⇒ |
↬ |
⇉ |
⇨ |
⇥ |
⇢ |
↪ |
&mapstoright; |
⇶ |
↣ |
⇰ |
↝ |
↠ |
⇾ |
Left Arrows
| Encoding | ← | ⇐ | ↫ | ⇇ | ⇦ | ⇤ | ⇠ | ↩ | ↤ | ⬱ | ↢ | ⬅ | ↜ | ↞ | ⇽ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode, hex | U+02190 |
U+021D0 |
U+021AB |
U+021C7 |
U+021E6 |
U+021E4 |
U+021E0 |
U+021A9 |
U+0021A4 |
U+02B31 |
U+021A2 |
U+02B05 |
U+0219C |
U+0219E |
U+021FD |
| Unicode, dec | 8592 |
8656 |
8619 |
8647 |
8678 |
8676 |
8672 |
8617 |
8612 |
11057 |
8610 |
11013 |
8604 |
8606 |
8701 |
| HTML | ← |
⇐ |
↫ |
⇇ |
⇦ |
⇤ |
⇠ |
↩ |
↤ |
↢ |
&larrw; |
↞ |
⇽ |
These are just a small sampling of arrows, however, and there’s so much more when it comes to unicode characters. In a previous post about encodings, HTML Symbols & ASCII Characters I referenced this resource from Toptal (which is still one of the best I’ve found).
Additional resources
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