Home U+FF00 to U+FFEF Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
Glyph for U+FFEC
Source: Noto CJK

U+FFEC Halfwidth Downwards Arrow

U+FFEC was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+FF00 to U+FFEF Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms 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 a narrow version of the glyph Glyph for U+2193 Downwards Arrow. Accordingly, its width in East Asian Text is halfwidth. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+FFEC forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The arrow symbol ↓ may refer to:

  • The downward direction, a relative direction
  • The keyboard cursor control key, an arrow key
  • A downwards arrow, a Unicode arrow symbol
  • Logical NOR, operator which produces a result that is the negation of logical OR
  • An undefined object, in mathematical well-definition
  • A mathematical symbol for "approaching from above"
  • A comma category, in category theory
  • Down (game theory), a mathematical game
  • The ingressive sound, in phonetics
  • An APL function
  • "Decreased" (and similar meanings), in medical notation
  • The precipitation of an insoluble solid, in chemical notation

Representations

System Representation
Nº 65516
UTF-8 EF BF AC
UTF-16 FF EC
UTF-32 00 00 FF EC
URL-Quoted %EF%BF%AC
HTML hex reference ￬
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ￬

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) HALFWIDTH DOWNWARDS ARROW
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category (gc) Math Symbol
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) narrow
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+2193 Downwards Arrow
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+FFEC Halfwidth Downwards Arrow
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+FFEC Halfwidth Downwards Arrow
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+FFEC Halfwidth Downwards Arrow
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+FFEC Halfwidth Downwards Arrow
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+FFEC Halfwidth Downwards Arrow
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+FFEC Halfwidth Downwards Arrow
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+FFEC Halfwidth Downwards 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+FFEC Halfwidth Downwards 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+2193 Downwards Arrow
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+2193 Downwards Arrow
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) No
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+FFEC Halfwidth Downwards Arrow
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) halfwidth
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+FFEC Halfwidth Downwards Arrow
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R