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U+2191 CHARACTER

UPWARDS ARROW

Quick Facts

Unicode Name UPWARDS ARROW
Code Point U+2191
Decimal Value 8593
General Category Math Symbol (Sm) →
Unicode Block Arrows →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 3 bytes E2 86 91
UTF-16 Code Unit 2191
UTF-32 4 bytes 00002191
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 21 91 LE: 91 21
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 21 91 LE: 91 21 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ↑
HTML Hexadecimal ↑
HTML Named Entity ↑
CSS Escape \002191
JavaScript (ES6) \u2191
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u2191
JSON Escape \u2191
Python \u2191
PHP "\u{2191}"
Java "\u2191"
C / C++ "\u2191"
Rust '\u{2191}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E2%86%91

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0 — Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class ON — Other Neutral
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+2191 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
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Context: A ↑ Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
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Context: A ↑ Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
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Context: A ↑ Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
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Context: A ↑ Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name UPWARDS ARROW

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+2191

Related Characters & Collections

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Curated Symbol Collection Curated in CopyCharacter's UPWARDS ARROW symbol library.
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