Anticlockwise Arrow

Type it

Ways to write the Anticlockwise Arrow symbol
UnicodeU+21BA
LaTeX\circlearrowleft
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Meaning

Shows rotation or orientation in the anticlockwise direction, which is the positive direction for angles and contours. In LaTeX it needs the amssymb package. Compare with Clockwise Arrow and Contour Integral.

How to read it

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is read “the contour integral taken anticlockwise”.

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