U+2BEC "⯬" Leftwards Two-Headed Arrow with Triangle Arrowheads Unicode Character

U+2BEC "⯬" Leftwards Two-Headed Arrow with Triangle Arrowheads is a typographic symbol that combines two arrowheads pointing left, with both heads shaped as filled triangles, suggesting a bidirectional or dual-directional meaning focused solely on the leftward direction. It belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block and is often used in diagrams, technical documentation, or mathematical notations to indicate a process that can move in two opposing ways within a leftward context, or to denote a two-way relationship that terminates on the left side. Despite its precise geometric design, the character is not commonly found in everyday text and is mainly employed in specialized fields such as cartography, flowcharting, or symbolic logic.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2BEC
Version Added	8.0
Name	Leftwards Two-Headed Arrow with Triangle Arrowheads
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 0xAF 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2BEC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002BEC
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2bec

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