Leftwards Arrow With Hook Left Arrow With Hook

U+21A9

Leftwards Arrow With Hook Left Arrow With Hook is the Unicode character ↩ at codepoint U+21A9 in the Arrows block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard — or use one of the encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.

Technical Reference

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How to Use Leftwards Arrow With Hook Left Arrow With Hook

To use the Leftwards Arrow With Hook Left Arrow With Hook 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: '\21A9';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u21A9' evaluates to ↩. In Python source, write '\u21A9'.

The character encodes to E2 86 A9 as UTF-8 bytes and 21A9 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 8617.

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.

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Last updated on 5 May 2026