What ➫ means
It points right and adds a decorative, shadowed look.
➫ can point to an item or mark a list. Unicode’s Dingbats block draws heavily on ITC Zapf Dingbats Series 100, a pictorial typeface family designed during 1975–1978 and used across Apple laser printers by the mid-1980s.
Why does ➫ look different across fonts?
The font determines how its shadow and tilt appear.
A fallback font can alter or omit those details; the character stays ➫. Use it for decorative pointers, not essential directions that need a uniform shape.
A decorative pointer with a distinctly typographic look.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does ➫ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type ➫
➫\27ABCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.