U+21C3 "⇃" Downwards Harpoon with Barb Leftwards Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+21C3 "⇃" Downwards Harpoon with Barb Leftwards is a typographic symbol in the Arrows block, depicting a vertical arrow pointing downward with a small, off-center barb or hook extending to the left from its shaft. This design is the left-barb variant of the more common downwards harpoon, and it is typically used in mathematical notation, diagrams, or technical writing to represent a vector, a mapping, or a directional force that points downward but has a specific leftward component or attachment indicated by the barb. Its appearance is distinct from the more symmetrical up or down arrows, as the barb's placement signals a particular one sided or angled relation often employed in fields like physics, engineering, or computer science for denoting partial or tangential operations in coordinate systems.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
⇃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
⇃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE2 0x87 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x21C3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000021C3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u21c3 |
Unicode Properties