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down-right arrow

Down-right arrow

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↘️ is the down-right (or southeast) arrow. In messages and social posts, it often works as a visual pointer directing your eye to a link, caption, button, or next line sitting below and to the right. Next to prices, stats, or a metric, it reads like a falling line on a chart—a drop or decline—while on maps and weather reports it marks southeast.

EmojiSince 2010

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2 versions
Text and emoji forms

What ↘️ means

It points toward something just below, or signals a drop. Most of the time, ↘️ is a practical layout cue. In left-to-right text, which flows from top-left toward bottom-right, a diagonal arrow aimed down and right naturally leads the reader's eye from a heading or callout into the next line, a link, an attached photo, or a corner button.

Context changes the reading immediately. Placed beside a number, price, or percentage, ↘️ mimics a line graph moving left to right and downward, so people read it as a decrease, discount, or slump. In navigation, weather forecasts, and geography, it marks southeast (SE), the in-between direction of south and east. On weather maps, check the legend: an arrow usually shows where the wind is heading, while a wind's name says where it comes from.

Neutral, functional, and matter-of-fact—used to organize text, guide attention, or summarize data at a glance.

Next to a person's name, project, or mood, it can read as "going downhill" if not clearly pointing at something below.

Part of the collection

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What it means when someone sends it to you

3 readings

Points your eye to the link, image, or detail on the line below.

Don't confuse it with

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⤵️
Right Arrow Curving Down
Right arrow curving down: starts horizontally and bends straight down; often used to point at the line just beneath.
📉
Chart Decreasing
Chart decreasing: a whole mini-graph rather than a bare arrow, used for any falling trend, from sales figures to a bad week.
➘
Heavy South East Arrow
A heavy black dingbat arrow pointing the same way; usually plain text, not a colour emoji.

The same Unicode arrow (U+2198) in text presentation (U+FE0E): usually a plain monochrome arrow rather than a colored emoji; the font decides the exact look.

Combination ideas

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The price has dropped.
Numbers trending down.
The details follow below.

Worth knowing

  • The characters behind ↘️ existed in Unicode 8 years before anyone was allowed to draw them in colour: Unicode 3.2 in 2002, emoji presentation in 2010.
  • ↘️ is not one character. It is 2 of them glued together, which is why deleting it sometimes takes two presses of backspace and why it breaks character counters.

Questions people ask

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Why does ↘️ look like a colored emoji on my phone but a plain thin arrow on my computer?

Because its base character is a plain text arrow far older than emoji. Followed by the emoji selector (UFE0F, an invisible code requesting emoji style), most phones draw a colored emoji; without it, fonts usually show a simple monochrome arrow.

Does ↘️ have a hidden slang meaning?

Not an established one. ↘️ mostly stays literal: it points at something lower on the screen, marks southeast, or shows that a number or mood is heading down.

Collections with ↘️

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📈Stock Market & Finance Emoji160 symbols₿Crypto & Bitcoin Emoji123 symbols📍Location & Map Emoji116 symbols😀All Emoji1,705 symbols⌨️Terminal Symbols & Emoji277 symbols🔵Blue Emoji179 symbols⌘Keyboard Symbols185 symbols⛏️Minecraft Symbols258 symbols

How to type or find ↘️

Also called
southeast arrow · south-east arrow · lower-right arrow
Search it as
down right arrow · lower right arrow · diagonal arrow down right · SE arrow · pointing down right · declining arrow
Type it as
:arrow_lower_right:
Around since
2010 · Emoji 0.6
Shows up on
Every phone · iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux
Windows
⊞Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “down-right arrow”.
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard search “down-right arrow”.
Chat apps
:arrow_lower_right:Common shortcode in Slack, GitHub, Discord, Mattermost and other chat apps; a few apps use a different name.
HTML
↘️
iPhone, iPad & Android
Open the emoji keyboard and search "arrow" or "southeast" (labels vary by keyboard), then pick ↘️ among the symbols.
macOS
Press Control Command Space and type "down-right arrow" or "southeast".
Windows
Press Win . (period) to open the emoji panel and search "arrow".
Plain text arrow (↘)
Use Unicode hex input with 2198; on many Linux desktops, press Ctrl Shift U, type 2198, then Space or Enter.
Codes and encoding2 code points
HTML decimal
↘️
HTML hex
↘️
CSS content
content: "\2198\FE0F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%86%98%EF%B8%8F
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On screen
2
Code points
2
JS .length
6
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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