What ➛ means
It marks a move or continuation to the right. This drafting point arrow suits a heading, list, or diagram. Printers used ornaments to guide and decorate pages from the fifteenth through nineteenth centuries. Arrows shed archers' feathered tails and grew more abstract in the mid-to-late nineteenth century.
Unicode groups ➛ with dingbat arrows: has a rounded tip, a triangular head, and a feathered tail. Nearby words supply any more specific instruction.
Decorative and editorial; it gives a page a designed, directional feel.
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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.
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- ➛ · drafting point arrow · right arrow · dingbat arrow
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
➛\279BCodes and encoding1 code points
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