U+21A6 Rightwards Arrow From Bar
U+21A6 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
This character is a Math Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as z notation maplet.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+21A6 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The CLDR project calls this character “rightwards arrow from bar” for use in screen reading software.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A maplet or maplet arrow (symbol: ↦, commonly pronounced "maps to") is a symbol consisting of a vertical line with a rightward-facing arrow. It is used in mathematics and in computer science to denote functions (the expression x ↦ y is also called a maplet). Some examples of use of the maplet is in Z notation, a formal specification language used in software development, and separation logic, where it denotes the contents of a specific cell of memory.
In the Unicode character set, the maplet is at the point U+21A6.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 8614 |
UTF-8 | E2 86 A6 |
UTF-16 | 21 A6 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 21 A6 |
URL-Quoted | %E2%86%A6 |
HTML hex reference | ↦ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ↦ |
HTML named entity | ↦ |
HTML named entity | ↦ |
HTML named entity | ↦ |
alias | z notation maplet |
LATEX | \mapsto |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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1.1 (1993) | |
RIGHTWARDS ARROW FROM BAR | |
RIGHT ARROW FROM BAR | |
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NA | |
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