Leftwards Arrow To Bar Over Rightwards Arrow To Bar
Part of Arrows
Leftwards Arrow To Bar Over Rightwards Arrow To Bar has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ↹
- Unicode
- U+21B9
About this symbol
↹, two arrows meeting bars, is the symbol printed on the Tab key of most PC keyboards: forward on its own, back with Shift. The name comes from the tabulator key of typewriters, which jumped the carriage to set stops for typing tables.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LEFTWARDS ARROW TO BAR OVER RIGHTWARDS ARROW TO BAR
- Also called
- Tab with shift tab
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Arrows
- Unicode group
- Keyboard symbols and circle arrows
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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