What ➤ means
It points forward: to the next item, step or link. Arrows began as pictures of real arrows and became abstract direction marks in print; one early symbolic use dates to 1737. In 1975–1978 the Zapf Dingbats font, a set of printers' symbols, grouped arrowheads like this one with other practical and decorative marks. Unicode later encoded that set.
A graphic signpost: more designed than a hyphen bullet, still neutral in tone.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does the arrowhead disappear in some fonts?
Missing glyph. If neither the chosen font nor a fallback font contains it, you see a blank box or replacement mark instead.
How to type ➤
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 27A4, then Alt+X to get ➤.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “black rightwards arrowhead”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 27a4, then Enter or Space.
HTML
➤CSS
\27A4Microsoft Word
Type 27A4, then press Alt+X.
HTML
➤
Mac
Press Control+Command+Space and search "arrowhead".
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
➤
HTML hex
➤
CSS content
content: "\27A4";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%9E%A4
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.