U+2196— ARROWS CHARACTER U+2196
Directional arrow glyph used for user interfaces, navigation indicators, and mathematical proofs.
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ARROWS CHARACTER U+2196
U+2196 • Decimal 8598
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1-Click Multi-Language Developer Copy Palette (13 Formats)
Instant Clipboard ExportCharacter Glyph (Raw)
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Unicode Codepoint (Hex)
U+2196
Decimal Integer
8598
HTML Entity (Decimal)
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HTML Entity (Hex)
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JavaScript ES6 / JSON
\u2196
Java / C# (Surrogates)
\u2196
Python 3
\u2196
C / C++ / Rust
\u2196
CSS Content
\002196
URL Percent-Encoded
%E2%86%96
Raw UTF-8 Bytes (Hex)
0xE2 0x86 0x96
Base64 Stream
4oaW
Unicode Character Database (UCD) Technical Specifications
Unicode 16.0 Standard| Unicode Plane | Plane 0: Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) • U+0000..U+FFFF |
| Unicode Block | Arrows (U+2190..U+21FF) |
| General Category | Lo — Other Letter / Symbol |
| Bidirectional Class | L (Left-to-Right) • Flow: LTR |
| Unicode Version Introduced | Unicode 2.0 - 5.0 |
| UTF-8 Byte Stream | 0xE2 0x86 0x96 (3 Bytes) |
| UTF-16 Code Units | 0x2196 |
| UTF-32 Hexadecimal | 0x00002196 |
Quick Character Summary
Glyph↖
Hex CodepointU+2196
Decimal ID8598
ScriptCommon
DirectionLTR (L)
Introduced InUnicode 2.0 - 5.0
Device & Font Support
99.0% SupportApple (iOS / macOS)iOS 5.0+
Google (Android / Chrome)Android 4.0+
Microsoft (Windows)Windows 7+
Standard Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) character widely supported across all modern browsers.