U+2B39 "⬹" Leftwards Arrow with Tail with Vertical Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⬹
U+2B39 "⬹" Leftwards Arrow with Tail with Vertical Stroke is a typographic symbol belonging to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block, combining a leftward pointing arrowhead with a short tail and a vertical stroke intersecting the shaft near its base. This specific design often represents a constrained or blocked movement to the left, suggesting a command to stop, reverse, or cancel an action in certain cartographic, editorial, or technical notation systems. As a supplementary arrow variant, it is encoded for use in documents requiring precise directional semantics beyond basic arrow shapes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2B39 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Leftwards Arrow with Tail with Vertical Stroke |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows |
| General Category | Math Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⬹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⬹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xAC 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2B39 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002B39 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2b39 |
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 |