U+2B0D "⬍" Up down Black Arrow Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⬍
U+2B0D "⬍" Up down Black Arrow is a typographic symbol that represents bidirectional vertical movement, indicating an upward and downward direction within a single glyph. It features a solid black arrowhead pointing upward and another pointing downward, aligned along a central vertical shaft. This character is commonly used in user interface design, diagrams, and documentation to denote functions like sorting, scrolling, or expanding and collapsing content in both directions. It is part of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block, and its visual simplicity allows it to communicate dual directional possibility without relying on text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2B0D |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Up down Black Arrow |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and 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 0xAC 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2B0D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002B0D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2b0d |
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 |