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U+2190 – U+21FF   (8592–8703)

Characters 8592–8597 and 8616 are present in Microsoft’s WGL4 character set. Characters 8592–8596, 8629 and 8656–8660 provide Unicode equivalents for some of the characters in Monotype’s Symbol font. Addition arrows can be found in the Supplemental Arrows-A, Supplemental Arrows-B, Supplemental Arrows-C and Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows ranges.

The characters that appear in the first column 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. The entries in the “Entity” column are character entity references that can be used in HTML pages.

You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode fonts AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni, AR PL ZenKai Uni, Arev Sans, Arial Unicode MS, Baekmuk Batang, Baekmuk Dotum, Baekmuk Gulim, Baekmuk Headline, Batang, BatangChe, Berling Antiqua, Calibri, Cambria Math, Caslon, Chandas, Charis SIL, Chrysanthi Unicode, CN-Arial, Code2000, Courier MonoThai, DejaVu Sans, DejaVu Sans Condensed, DejaVu Sans Mono, DejaVu Serif, DejaVu Serif Condensed, Dialekt Uni, Doulos SIL, e-PhonTranslit UNI (few), EversonMono, Fixedsys Excelsior, Free Idg Serif, Free Monospaced, Free Sans, Free Serif, Frutiger Linotype, Gandhari Unicode (few), Garava, Gulim Che, Gungsuh, GungsuhChe, HAN NOM A, HAN NOM B, Hindsight Unicode, HY Shin Myeongjo Std Acro, jGaramond, Kochi Gothic, Kochi Mincho, Kozuka Mincho Pro Acro, Linux Biolinum O, Linux Libertine O, Lucida Bright, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans, Lucida Sans Unicode, Malgun Gothic, Marin, Ming(for ISO10646), MingLiU (few), MingLiU_HKSCS (few), Monospace, MS Gothic, MS Mincho, MS PGothic, MS PMincho, MS UI Gothic, MSung Std Acro, New Gulim, OpenSymbol, ParabaikSans (few), PMingLiU (few), Quivira, Reader Sans, Roman Unicode, Sazanami Mincho, SImPL, sixpack, StarSymbol, STIXGeneral, Sun-ExtA, Symbola, Thryomanes, TITUS Cyberbit Basic, UnBatang (few), UniBurma, Uttara (few), Verajja, WenQuanYi Zen Hei (few), WenQuanYi Zen Hei Mono (few) and YOzFontN; in the Macintosh OS 9 Unicode fonts AppleGothic, AppleMyungjo, Capitals, Charcoal, Charcoal CE, Chicago, Chicago CE, Gadget, Geneva, Gungseouche, HeiseiKakuGothic, HeiseiMincho, Hoefler Text, Monaco, New York, Osaka, Osaka-Mono, Pilgiche, Sand, Seoul, Techno, Textile and Times; in the Macintosh OS X Unicode fonts AppleGothic, AppleMyungjo, Apple Symbols, Batang, Charcoal, Chicago, #GothicMedium, Gulim, #GungSeo, Hangang, Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro, Hiragino Kaku Gothic Std, Hiragino Maru Gothic Pro, Hiragino Mincho Pro, Lucida Grande, MS Gothic, MS Mincho, MS PGothic, MS PMincho, #MyungjoNeue, Osaka, Osaka-Mono, #PCMyungjo, #PilGi, Sand, Seoul, STFangsong, STHeiti, STKaiti, STSong, Symbol and #TaeGraphic; and in the Unix Unicode fonts Caslon and ClearlyU.

To see exactly which characters are included in a particular font, you can use a utility such as Andrew West’s BabelMap, Apple’s TrueEdit, 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/U2190.pdf.

Copyright © 1999–2010 Alan Wood

The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 3.2 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–2002 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode Web site (http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in April 2002.

Created 3rd February 1999   Last updated 24th August 2010