Downwards Sans-Serif Arrow

Use a Unicode picker or character map.

Enter U+1F853 in an editor's Unicode picker, use a character map that supports supplementary characters, or enter the HTML character reference 🡓. The keystrokes for direct Unicode input depend on your operating system.

What does this exact arrow mean?

It points down; the sans-serif design changes the style, not the direction.

Unicode's names list links this sans-serif form to the ordinary downwards arrow ↓. In a label, diagram, or note, nearby words show whether it points to a lower item, destination, or next step.

Wingdings began with Windows 3.1 in 1992; Microsoft dates Webdings to 1997 and describes it as a font for web graphics and navigation. A 2011 Unicode proposal catalogued sans-serif arrows alongside symbol-font sets such as Wingdings and Webdings, as part of making font-bound symbols searchable and interoperable. Before encoding, symbols in these fonts could occupy private-use slots or require special symbol menus. 🡓 entered Unicode in 2014; that changed its portability, not its downward reading.

Why does the arrow look wrong?

A font draws 🡓, so support and shape can vary.

If the receiving font lacks it, you may see a replacement box, a fallback arrow, or different proportions. For a diagram or carefully aligned label, check it in the destination app.