What ⭉ means
It marks a leftward arrow with a tilde operator above it.
A tilde is the small wave-shaped mark; an operator is a symbol that expresses a relation or action. The surrounding formula's notation determines the exact relation, so the shape alone does not define a specific equation.
Why was this arrow added?
To distinguish arrow direction from the tilde operator.
In 2007, standards discussions on Arabic mathematical notation, which can run right to left, added six arrow forms. Mirroring a glyph can reverse its appearance, but it cannot by itself indicate a reversed tilde operation. ⭉ was one of the forms that made arrow direction and tilde type explicit.
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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
- tilde arrow · leftward tilde arrow · tilde operator arrow · math arrow with tilde
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⭉\2B49Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.