South West Arrow Lower Left Arrow

U+2199

South West Arrow Lower Left Arrow is the Unicode character ↙ at codepoint U+2199 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

Unicode Codepoint
Decimal
UTF-8 (hex)
UTF-16 (hex)
HEX Entity
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CSS (\xxxx)
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How to Use South West Arrow Lower Left Arrow

To use the South West Arrow Lower Left 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: '\2199';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2199' evaluates to ↙. In Python source, write '\u2199'.

The character encodes to E2 86 99 as UTF-8 bytes and 2199 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 8601.

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