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Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows

U+2B00 – U+2BFF   (11008–11263)

The Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows range was introduced with version 4.0 of the Unicode Standard, and is located in Plane 0, the Basic Multilingual Plane. Other arrows can be found in the Arrows, Supplemental Arrows-A, and Supplemental Arrows-B ranges.

The characters that appear in the “Character” columns of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.

You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode fonts Code2000, DejaVu Sans, DejaVu Sans Condensed, DejaVu Serif, DejaVu Serif Condensed, Quivira, sixpack, Symbola and Y.OzFontN.

To see exactly which characters are included in a particular font, you can use a utility such as Andrew West’s BabelMap, or WunderMoosen’s FontChecker.

If you are not familiar with the characters, you can check the characters displayed here with the graphical display at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2B00.pdf.

Copyright © 2003–2009 Alan Wood

The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 5.2.0 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–2009 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode Web site (http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in October 2009.

Created 17th July 2003   Last updated 12th November 2009

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