U+21E5 Rightwards Arrow To Bar
U+21E5 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as rightward tab.
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+21E5 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The CLDR project calls this character “rightwards arrow bar” for use in screen reading software.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The tab key Tab ↹ (abbreviation of tabulator key or tabular key) on a keyboard is used to advance the cursor to the next tab stop.
Representations
System | Representation |
---|---|
Nº | 8677 |
UTF-8 | E2 87 A5 |
UTF-16 | 21 E5 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 21 E5 |
URL-Quoted | %E2%87%A5 |
HTML hex reference | ⇥ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ⇥ |
HTML named entity | ⇥ |
HTML named entity | ⇥ |
alias | rightward tab |
Adobe Glyph List | arrowtabright |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
---|---|
1.1 (1993) | |
RIGHTWARDS ARROW TO BAR | |
RIGHT ARROW TO BAR | |
Arrows | |
Other Symbol | |
Common | |
Other Neutral | |
Not Reordered | |
none | |
|
|
✘ | |
|
|
|
|
✘ | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
|
|
Any | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
|
|
Yes | |
|
|
Yes | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
|
|
None | |
neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Alphabetic | |
none | |
not a number | |
|
|
R |