U+FFEC "￬" Halfwidth Downwards Arrow Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FFEC "￬" Halfwidth Downwards Arrow is a typographic symbol included in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, designed to match the visual proportions of standard East Asian characters when used in monospaced or CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) text environments. It represents a downward pointing arrow with a single stroke and occupies a narrower character width than its fullwidth counterpart, allowing it to fit into text that uses a halfwidth character cell. This arrow is often used in technical documentation, user interfaces, or legacy computing contexts to indicate a downward direction or a decrease, functioning as a concise glyph compatible with fixed-width layouts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FFEC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Halfwidth Downwards Arrow |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Math Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Narrow |
| Decomposition Mapping | "↓" U+2193 Downwards Arrow |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ￬ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ￬ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBF 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFFEC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FFEC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uffec |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Halfwidth |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "↓" U+2193 Downwards Arrow |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "↓" U+2193 Downwards Arrow |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Math | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |