What ⥫ means
24 June 2025 MathML Core lists ⥫ as infix and stretchy. MathML is a markup format for formulas on webpages. infix means the operator sits between expressions; stretchy lets a renderer lengthen it along the line. These are layout rules, not a definition of the relation it expresses.
Related characters
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Leftwards Harpoon With Barb Downwards
↽ is the shorter leftward harpoon with a downward barb. A 7 April 1998 list of named MathML characters calls it
lhard and the long-dash form ⥫ llhard.
Leftwards Harpoon With Barb Up Above Long Dash
It points left like ⥫, but its harpoon barb is above the long dash.
Rightwards Harpoon With Barb Down Below Long Dash
This is the rightward counterpart: its barb points down beneath a long dash.
Questions people ask
1Why does ⥫ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ⥫
- Search it as
- long-dash harpoon · harpoon arrow in math · arrow with a barb
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
⥫CSS
\296BHTML source
As of 8 October 2026, the HTML Standard lists
⥫ as the named character reference for ⥫; ⥫ is its numeric form.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⥫
HTML hex
⥫
CSS content
content: "\296B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%A5%AB
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.