U+296B "⥫" Leftwards Harpoon with Barb down Below Long Dash Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+296B "⥫" Leftwards Harpoon with Barb down Below Long Dash is a typographic symbol used primarily in mathematical notation and diagrammatic logic, often within the field of category theory or in depictions of long-distance arrows where a standard harpoon is combined with a dash. It visually represents a leftward facing harpoon with its barb pointing downward, connected to an elongated horizontal line, indicating a specific directional or functional relationship. This character belongs to the Supplemental Arrows-B block and serves as a specialized tool for precise formal expressions in technical documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+296B |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Leftwards Harpoon with Barb down Below 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 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x296B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000296B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u296b |
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 |