U+219A "↚" Leftwards Arrow with Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+219A "↚" Leftwards Arrow with Stroke is a typographic symbol that represents a leftward pointing arrow modified by a diagonal stroke crossing through its shaft. This symbol is typically used to indicate negation, prohibition, or the absence of a leftward direction or movement in technical diagrams, mathematical notation, and logic contexts. It belongs to the Arrows block in the Unicode standard and is encoded specifically as a variant of the basic leftwards arrow, where the stroke serves as a clear visual marker of opposition or cancellation. The character is commonly employed in fields such as mathematics, linguistics, and user interface design to denote that a leftward action or relation is forbidden, invalid, or not applicable.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+219A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Leftwards Arrow with Stroke |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Left Arrow with Stroke |
| Block | Arrows |
| General Category | Math Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "←" U+2190 Leftwards Arrow "̸" U+0338 Combining Long Solidus Overlay |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ↚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ↚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x86 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x219A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000219A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u219a |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Math | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |