Clockwise Arrow

Type it

Ways to write the Clockwise Arrow symbol
UnicodeU+21BB
LaTeX\circlearrowright
HTML entity↻
Character↻

Meaning

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

How to read it

θ ↻ 90°

is read “theta, ninety degrees clockwise”.

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