Upwards White Arrow On Pedestal With Horizontal Bar
Part of Arrows
Upwards White Arrow On Pedestal With Horizontal 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+21EC
About this symbol
⇬, an upward arrow on a pedestal with a bar, is the international keyboard symbol for Caps Lock, from ISO 9995-7. The lock comes from typewriters, where a shift lock held the heavy type basket up for a run of capitals.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- UPWARDS WHITE ARROW ON PEDESTAL WITH HORIZONTAL BAR
- Also called
- Capitals (caps) lock
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Arrows
- Unicode group
- White arrows and keyboard symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 3.0 (1999)
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