What 🠻 means
Use it to mark a downward route or step.
Wingdings 3 maps 🠻 to the font-specific slot j6down, not a portable input code. Microsoft designed Wingdings in 1990–91 and released it in 1992 for pictorial symbols in documents.
A 2011 Unicode proposal sought portable, searchable text codes for Wingdings and Webdings symbols. The square changes the design; the arrow still points down.
Technical in appearance; it reads as a direction marker.
If 🠻 shows as a box, the font lacks its glyph.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions 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 1F83B, 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 “downwards squared arrow”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1f83b, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🠻CSS
\1F83BUnicode hex input
In an app with Unicode hex input, enter `1F83B` and run its conversion command.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🠻
HTML hex
🠻
CSS content
content: "\1F83B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%A0%BB
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.