U+21A9 "↩" Leftwards Arrow with Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+21A9 "↩" Leftwards Arrow with Hook is a typographic symbol commonly used to represent the return or enter key on a keyboard, often associated with a carriage return or newline in computing contexts. Its design features an arrow pointing leftward with a distinctive downward hook at the tail, visually mimicking the action of a cursor returning to the left margin. This character is part of the Arrows block in Unicode and serves as a useful icon in digital interfaces, documentation, and text formatting to indicate line breaks or command execution.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+21A9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Leftwards Arrow with Hook |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Left Arrow with Hook |
| 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 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x21A9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000021A9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u21a9 |