Downwards Arrow With Small Equilateral Arrowhead

It points down, nothing more.

Read it as "look below", "next comes this" or "go down one step". In a list it leads from one item to the next; in a flow chart it shows the order of stages; in a note it says the answer is further down the page. Nearby words name the target; the arrow only gives the direction.

The long name describes the drawing, not a special meaning. The head is a small equilateral triangle, a triangle with three equal sides. Its neighbours in the same set have "triangle" heads (differently proportioned) in small, medium and large sizes, or a larger equilateral head, each pointing left, up, right and down. Pick 🠓 when you want exactly this look; if any down arrow will do, the ordinary ↓ is safer, because far more fonts have it.

Where does 🠓 come from?

It is one of the arrows from Microsoft's Wingdings 3 font, turned into a Unicode character.

Wingdings is the symbol font Microsoft released with Windows 3.1 in 1992, and Wingdings 3 is the sheet of arrows in that family. For about twenty years those arrows had no standard code of their own: a document stored a code that meant "this arrow" only while Wingdings 3 was installed, so on a Mac or a web page without the font the reader could see a stray letter or an empty box instead. In 2014 Unicode gave this arrow and many of its sheet-mates their own code numbers in a block called Supplemental Arrows-C, so each shape could be stored and searched as real text in any font that cares to draw it.

That history explains the two things people notice about 🠓: its very precise name (it spells out the drawing so the arrow can be told apart from its near-identical neighbours) and its patchy display. Many fonts leave it out, so a document that looks fine on one computer can show a hollow box on another. The character is still there; it is the font that is missing the picture.