U+2199 "↙" South West Arrow Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2199 "↙" South West Arrow is a typographic symbol that represents a downward and leftward diagonal direction, commonly used in cartography, user interface design, and mathematical notation to indicate movement, orientation, or a decreasing trend toward the bottom left quadrant. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures consistent rendering across digital platforms, allowing it to function as a clear visual cue in diagrams, graphs, or text-based instructions where spatial relationships need to be conveyed without reliance on color or imagery. This arrow belongs to the Arrows block within Unicode, which contains a comprehensive set of directional and relational symbols for technical and general communication purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2199 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | South West Arrow |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Lower Left Arrow |
| Block | Arrows |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ↙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ↙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x86 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2199 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002199 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2199 |