About Leftwards Open-headed Arrow
Leftwards Open-headed Arrow is the Unicode character ⇽ at codepoint U+21FD in the Arrows block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Technical Reference
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How to Use Leftwards Open-headed Arrow
To use the Leftwards Open-headed Arrow 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: '\21FD';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u21FD' evaluates to ⇽. In Python source, write '\u21FD'.
The character encodes to E2 87 BD as UTF-8 bytes and 21FD as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 8701.
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.