U+296A "⥪" Leftwards Harpoon with Barb Up Above Long Dash Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+296A "⥪" Leftwards Harpoon with Barb Up Above Long Dash is part of the Supplemental Arrows-B block in the Unicode standard, designed for use in mathematical notation and technical documentation. This symbol depicts a leftward-facing harpoon with its barb pointing upward, placed above a horizontal long dash. It is typically employed to represent a specific type of mapping, relation, or directional flow in fields such as logic, category theory, or chemistry, where nuanced arrow annotations are required to convey distinct functional relationships or transformations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+296A |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Leftwards Harpoon with Barb Up Above Long Dash |
| 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 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x296A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000296A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u296a |
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 |