U+21B5 "↵" Downwards Arrow with Corner Leftwards Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+21B5 "↵" Downwards Arrow with Corner Leftwards is a typographic symbol that represents a carriage return or the enter key on a keyboard, visually indicating a line break where the cursor moves down and then to the left to start a new line. It is commonly used in software interfaces, text editing, and coding environments to denote the end of a paragraph or a hard return, and it is also employed in diagrams to show a turn or a change in direction.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+21B5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Downwards Arrow with Corner Leftwards |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Down Arrow with Corner Left |
| 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 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x21B5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000021B5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u21b5 |
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 |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |