What ➟ means
It points right; its dashed line marks a distinct arrow design.
Use it to point toward a destination or the next item. Unicode treats the shapes in its dingbat-arrow set as meaningful distinctions, so a plain → keeps the direction but not the design.
Unicode's account of the Dingbats block points to ITC Zapf Dingbats Series 100, a symbol-font collection, and says the block's order broadly follows PostScript, a language for describing printed pages.
Don't confuse it with
4➠➝➞➔
Heavy Dashed Triangle-Headed Rightwards Arrow
shares “arrow”, “dashed”, “headed”, “rightwards”, “triangle”
Triangle-Headed Rightwards Arrow
shares “arrow”, “headed”, “rightwards”, “triangle”
Heavy Triangle-Headed Rightwards Arrow
shares “arrow”, “headed”, “rightwards”, “triangle”
Heavy Wide-Headed Rightwards Arrow
shares “arrow”, “headed”, “rightwards”
Questions 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 ➟
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 279F, 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 “dashed triangle-headed rightwards arrow”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 279f, then Enter or Space.
HTML
➟CSS
\279FCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
➟
HTML hex
➟
CSS content
content: "\279F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%9E%9F
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.