U+2B8E "⮎" Anticlockwise Triangle-Headed Left U-Shaped Arrow Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⮎
U+2B8E "⮎" Anticlockwise Triangle-Headed Left U-Shaped Arrow is a typographic symbol that depicts an arrow with a triangular head, pointing to the left, which bends upward and then back around to the right in a U-shaped curve, with the overall motion moving in an anticlockwise direction. It belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block, often used in diagrams, maps, or user interfaces to indicate a looping leftward turn, a reversal or return path, or a cyclical anticlockwise rotation that begins by going left.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2B8E |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Anticlockwise Triangle-Headed Left U-Shaped 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 0xAE 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2B8E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002B8E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2b8e |
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 |