U+2927 "⤧" North West Arrow and North East Arrow Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⤧
U+2927 "⤧" North West Arrow and North East Arrow is a typographic symbol in the Supplemental Arrows-B block, designed to represent two diagonal arrows diverging from a shared origin, one pointing to the upper left (northwest) and the other to the upper right (northeast). This character is often used in diagrams, technical documentation, or mathematical contexts to indicate branching, splitting, or dual directional flow that moves outward and upward simultaneously. Its dual arrow structure visually conveys concepts like dispersion, forking paths, or combined northwest and northeast trajectories, making it a concise tool for illustrating parallel or diverging movements in a single glyph.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2927 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | North West Arrow and North East Arrow |
| Block | Supplemental Arrows-B |
| General Category | Math Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⤧ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⤧ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xA4 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2927 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002927 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2927 |
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 |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |