U+294E "⥎" Left Barb Up Right Barb Up Harpoon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⥎
U+294E "⥎" Left Barb Up Right Barb Up Harpoon is a mathematical symbol from the Supplemental Arrows-B block, representing a double-sided harpoon pointing both to the left and right. Both barbs on the ends of the vertical shaft face upward, visually indicating a two-way horizontal exchange or bidirectional mapping that is lifted or directed upward. This glyph is typically used in technical notation, such as in category theory or logical diagrams, to denote a relation, function, or transformation that operates or flows in both directions while maintaining an upward orientation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+294E |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Left Barb Up Right Barb Up Harpoon |
| 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 0xA5 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x294E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000294E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u294e |
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 |