U+20D6 "⃖" Combining Left Arrow Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⃖
U+20D6 "⃖" Combining Left Arrow Above is a combining diacritical mark designed to be placed over a preceding base character to indicate a leftward pointing arrow in mathematical, phonetic, or other technical notation. As a combining character, it does not occupy its own horizontal space but instead overlays the glyph to its left, typically used in vector notation to represent a leftward direction or a retracted articulation in linguistics. This character is part of the Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols block, where it serves alongside other arrow combining marks to provide precise directional annotations in text without altering the base character's spacing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+20D6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Combining Left Arrow Above |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Non-Spacing Left Arrow Above |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⃖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⃖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x83 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x20D6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000020D6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u20d6 |