U+20EA "⃪" Combining Leftwards Arrow Overlay Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+20EA "⃪" Combining Leftwards Arrow Overlay is a combining diacritical mark used in digital text to modify the appearance of the preceding character by overlaying it with a leftward pointing arrow symbol. This character belongs to the Combining Diacritical Marks block and is intended for specialized orthographic or typographic purposes, such as indicating phonetic shifts, linguistic derivations, or scientific notations where a visual arrow overlay is needed without altering the base character’s standard positioning. As a combining character, it does not stand alone but attaches to the character immediately before it, allowing for precise textual annotation in contexts like academic writing or digital typesetting.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+20EA |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Combining Leftwards Arrow Overlay |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Overlay |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⃪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⃪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x83 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x20EA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000020EA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u20ea |