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Glyph for U+2190
Source: Noto Sans Math

U+2190 Leftwards Arrow

U+2190 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+2190 to U+21FF Arrows in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Math Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.

The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. If its East Asian Width is “narrow”, U+2190 forms a word with similar characters, which prevents a line break inside it. Otherwise it allows line breaks around it, except in some numeric contexts.

The CLDR project calls this character “left-pointing arrow” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: arrow, left.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

← or <- may refer to:

  • an arrow (symbol), character of Unicode
  • an arrow key or a backspace on a keyboard
  • ←, <<, <-, representing the assignment operator in various programming languages
  • a converse implication in logic
  • the relative direction of left or back
  • "Caused by" (and other meanings), in medical notation

Representations

System Representation
Nº 8592
UTF-8 E2 86 90
UTF-16 21 90
UTF-32 00 00 21 90
URL-Quoted %E2%86%90
HTML hex reference &#x2190;
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ←
HTML named entity &LeftArrow;
HTML named entity &ShortLeftArrow;
HTML named entity &larr;
HTML named entity &leftarrow;
HTML named entity &slarr;
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) A1 E7
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) A2 AB
LATEX \leftarrow
AGL: Latin-4 uni2190
AGL: Latin-5 uni2190
Adobe Glyph List arrowleft
digraph <-

Related Characters

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) LEFTWARDS ARROW
Unicode 1 Name (na1) LEFT ARROW
Block (blk) Arrows
General Category (gc) Math Symbol
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+2190 Leftwards Arrow
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+2190 Leftwards Arrow
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+2190 Leftwards Arrow
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+2190 Leftwards Arrow
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+2190 Leftwards Arrow
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+2190 Leftwards Arrow
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+2190 Leftwards Arrow
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+2190 Leftwards Arrow
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✘
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+2190 Leftwards Arrow
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✘
ID Start (IDS) ✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Math (Math) ✔
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+2190 Leftwards Arrow
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+2190 Leftwards Arrow
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✔
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Other
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✘
XID Start (XIDS) ✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+2190 Leftwards Arrow
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) ambiguous
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic)
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+2190 Leftwards Arrow
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R