U+219E "↞" Leftwards Two Headed Arrow Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+219E "↞" Leftwards Two Headed Arrow is a typographic symbol that represents a leftward pointing arrow with two distinct arrowheads on its shaft, typically used to indicate a bidirectional relationship or a two way connection oriented to the left in diagrams, mathematical notation, or user interface contexts. Unlike a standard single headed arrow, the two headed design visually conveys that movement, mapping, or logical flow can occur in either leftward direction or that an element points both ways along the same axis. This character is part of the Arrows block in Unicode and is commonly employed in technical documentation, flowcharts, and abstract representations of symmetry or equivalence when a simple left arrow would be insufficient.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+219E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Leftwards Two Headed Arrow |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Left Two Headed 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 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x219E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000219E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u219e |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD 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 |
| Other Math | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |