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U+21FF · decimal 8703 · Arrows

Every way to write it

6 forms

HTML entity

⇿

This character has no named entity, so the numeric form is the one to use.

CSS content

\21FF

For a content property in a ::before or ::after rule. No semicolon, and mind the trailing space.

JavaScript

\u21FF

Valid in a JavaScript or JSON string literal, so it survives files and pipelines that are not UTF-8 clean.

Python

\u21FF

The escape for a Python string literal.

URL

%E2%87%BF

Percent-encoded UTF-8, for a query string or a path segment.

UTF-8 bytes

E2 87 BF

3 bytes on the wire. Seeing these as separate garbled characters means something decoded them as single-byte text.

system picker

macOS

Control + Command + Space, then search left right white arrow

Windows

Character Map or Alt + 8703

Code pointU+21FF

EntityNumeric

UTF-83 bytes

ASCIINo