Up Down Arrow
Part of Arrows
On Windows, hold Alt and type 18 on the numeric keypad to insert up down arrow.
- Alt code
- Alt+18
- HTML entity
- ↕
- Unicode
- U+2195
About this symbol
↕, the up down arrow, is Alt+18 because the IBM PC’s character set, code page 437, gave it to control code 18. It means the two directions together, as on a lift button or a sort control.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- UP DOWN ARROW
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Arrows
- Unicode group
- Simple arrows
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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