U+21F1 "⇱" North West Arrow to Corner Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⇱
U+21F1 "⇱" North West Arrow to Corner is a typographic symbol that depicts an arrow pointing toward the upper left corner of a bounding area, often used to indicate movement, navigation, or alignment to the top-left position in a document, user interface, or mathematical notation. It belongs to the Arrows block in the Unicode standard and is formally named “North West Arrow to Corner,” serving as a directional marker for corner references in diagrams, layout instructions, or proofreading marks. This character is distinct from simpler arrows due to its angled, folded shape that clearly suggests a terminus at the northwest corner of a conceptual rectangle.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+21F1 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | North West Arrow to Corner |
| 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 0x87 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x21F1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000021F1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u21f1 |
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 |