What ⇣ means
It points down; context supplies the specific instruction.
The broken shaft distinguishes this design from a solid arrow, but does not set a universal meaning for the style. Any further category or action belongs to the diagram or notation using it.
Technical and context-dependent; its specific instruction comes from the notation around it.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
4Git prompt: branch is three commits behind the remote
One commit ahead, three behind the remote
A light download link
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Questions people ask
1Will ⇣ look the same in every font?
No. Font rendering varies with coverage and glyph design: a font may draw the dashes differently or lack this character, so an app may show a fallback.
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Collections with ⇣
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How to type or find ⇣
- Search it as
- dashed down arrow · dotted down arrow · down arrow symbol · dashed arrow symbol · ⇣
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⇣CSS
\21E3Microsoft Word
Type 21E3, then press AltX.
Code or HTML
Use
\u21E3 where Unicode escapes are supported, or the HTML entity ⇣.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⇣
HTML hex
⇣
CSS content
content: "\21E3";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%87%A3
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.