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Alex Elfont
Alex Elfont

Reputation: 125

Unicode value for right arrow with two strokes

I want to use the → character with two // strokes through the arrow but cannot find the unicode value for it anywhere. Does this exist in unicode? If not, is there a way to recreate it?

Here's a snippet of a picture from the website on which I found the character.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 383

Answers (3)

Double Stroke
Double Stroke

Reputation: 11

There are six Unicode characters whose name matches a right arrow with a double stroke, making use of the regular expression: /right.*arrow.*double.*stroke/.

Unicode Data Finder > Find by Name

Only two characters appear to be relevant candidates:

  • ⇻ U+21FB RIGHTWARDS ARROW WITH DOUBLE VERTICAL STROKE

  • ⭼ U+2B7C RIGHTWARDS TRIANGLE-HEADED ARROW WITH DOUBLE HORIZONTAL STROKE (* RIGHTWARDS TRIANGLE-HEADED ARROW WITH DOUBLE VERTICAL STROKE)

Notes:

  • The official Unicode name of U+2B7C was initially wrong, but a corrected name has been added later as an alias.

  • U+2B7C appears to be quite uncommon, no suitable font was available in the OS used for the screenshot. Still, it is possible to see what it should look like in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows - Range: 2B00–2BFF PDF document:

Glyph for U+2B7C

Upvotes: 1

Giacomo Catenazzi
Giacomo Catenazzi

Reputation: 9523

The following Unicode sequences should describe your character, but unfortunately fonts are not helping.

  • →⃫ : \u2192\u20EB
  • ⟶⃫ : \u27F6\u20EB

They are normal and long arrow, with the combining U+20EB: COMBINING LONG DOUBLE SOLIDUS OVERLAY (long double slash overlay). You may find a technical font which can display both in the expected way.

You may get something acceptable also with:

  • ⎯⎯⎯⃫⟶ \u23AF\u23AF\u23AF\u20EB\u27F6 (using arrow extension line)
  • ⎯⎯⃫⟶ \u23AF\u23AF\u20EB\u27F6

Depending on the environment, one of the two seem much better (on my computers).

So: you can express it (semantically) with Unicode, but standards fonts are not helping us. You should experiment with many symbols/mathematical fonts, to get an acceptable solution.

As alternative, you can build such image easily with SVG (and use a SVG as character image).

Upvotes: 0

user9706
user9706

Reputation:

I was not successful in finding what you were looking for (negative result). U+0219B is a "Rightwards Arrow with Stroke" and U+021FB "Rightwards Arrow with Double Vertical Stroke". If it exist, it would probably be called "Rightwards Arrow with Double Stroke". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_(symbol)

Upvotes: 0

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