What ⭭ means
It marks a downward route with a dashed line.
In diagrams, the dashes mark a route; the layout says what it connects. The set also has left , up , and right arrows. is simpler; ⭭ has a triangular head.
A 2011 Unicode proposal traces ⭭ to w-3054, the glyph label in Wingdings 3. The original Wingdings fonts appeared with Windows 3.1 in 1992.
Technical and diagrammatic; the layout supplies what the dashed route connects.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
2Combination ideas
3Questions 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 or find ⭭
- Search it as
- dashed down arrow · triangle arrow · Wingdings 3 arrow
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⭭\2B6DCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.







