About Black Left Pointing Index
Black Left Pointing Index is the Unicode character ☚ at codepoint U+261A in the Miscellaneous Symbols block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Technical Reference
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How to Use Black Left Pointing Index
To use the Black Left Pointing Index symbol (☚) in HTML, insert the
entity ☚ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ☚ works in any HTML-serialised document.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\261A';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u261A' evaluates to ☚. In Python source, write '\u261A'.
The character encodes to E2 98 9A as UTF-8 bytes and 261A as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9754.
This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.