U+21A9 "" Leftwards Arrow with Hook Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Emoji Source: Browser Default

U+21A9 "" Leftwards Arrow with Hook is a typographic symbol commonly used to represent the return or enter key on a keyboard, often associated with a carriage return or newline in computing contexts. Its design features an arrow pointing leftward with a distinctive downward hook at the tail, visually mimicking the action of a cursor returning to the left margin. This character is part of the Arrows block in Unicode and serves as a useful icon in digital interfaces, documentation, and text formatting to indicate line breaks or command execution.

General Properties

Code Point
U+21A9
Name
Leftwards Arrow with Hook
Unicode 1.0 Name
Left Arrow with Hook

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
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HTML Hex Encoding
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UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x86 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding
0x21A9
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000021A9
C/C++/Java Escape
\u21a9