What 🢜 means
It is the heavy shaft used to build arrows. Alone, it points nowhere.
The pre-Unicode trail includes the Wingdings 3 arrow-shaft design and g5, an arrow set described in PostScript, a language for laying out pages and graphics. G5 pairs heavy shafts with arrowheads; companion shafts come in two-thirds, one-half, and one-third widths.
Technical notation for an arrow part, not a finished direction.
Don't use it alone when the reader needs a direction.
Don't confuse it with
4🢞🢟🢝🢬
Heavy Arrow Shaft Width One Half
shares “arrow”, “heavy”, “one”, “shaft”, “width”
Heavy Arrow Shaft Width One Third
shares “arrow”, “heavy”, “one”, “shaft”, “width”
Heavy Arrow Shaft Width Two Thirds
shares “arrow”, “heavy”, “shaft”, “width”
White Arrow Shaft Width One
shares “arrow”, “one”, “shaft”, “width”
Questions 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 1F89C, 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 “heavy arrow shaft width one”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1f89c, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🢜CSS
\1F89CCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🢜
HTML hex
🢜
CSS content
content: "\1F89C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%A2%9C
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.