What ⇚ means
⇚ is the leftwards triple arrow. Unicode classifies it as an “other symbol” — Unicode's shelf for signs that are neither maths, money nor punctuation and files it in the Arrows block; this site shelves it under Arrows.
Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.
How it is encoded
⇚ is a single code point, U21DA. In HTML that is ⇚, and in CSS \21DA.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Leftwards Double Arrow
⇐ has two strokes and often means “is implied by”; ⇚ has three.
Leftwards Quadruple Arrow
⭅ is the leftwards quadruple arrow: four strokes, where ⇚ has three.
Three Leftwards Arrows
⬱ is three separate stacked arrows, each with its own head, not one arrow drawn with three strokes.
Related characters
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Rightwards Triple Arrow
Its mirror image, the rightwards triple arrow; LaTeX pairs them as \Lleftarrow and \Rrightarrow.
Upwards Triple Arrow
The upwards triple arrow: the same three-stroke design, pointing up.
Downwards Triple Arrow
The downwards triple arrow: the same three-stroke design, pointing down.
Combination ideas
4Heavy arrows pointing both ways
Rewind, way back
Swipe hard to the left
Go back home
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
- leftwards triple arrow symbol · leftwards triple arrow copy paste
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⇚CSS
\21DACodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⇚
HTML hex
⇚
CSS content
content: "\21DA";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%87%9A
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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.