What ➸ means
The feathered tail makes this pointer look ornamental and emphatic. In a 1737 hydraulic treatise, Bernard Forest de Bélidor used an archer-like arrow to show water flow and waterwheel rotation. By the nineteenth century, arrow designs increasingly shed feathered tails as direction became the main information.
Unicode’s Dingbats collection draws largely on ITC Zapf Dingbats Series 100, a commercial symbol-font set. ➸ belongs to this ornamental arrow collection, with the feathering built into its designed form.
Its register is decorative, not neutral.
A plain arrow preserves direction but drops the feathered design.
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Don't confuse it with
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Combination ideas
3Questions people ask
1Will ➸ look identical in every font?
No. The font used to render the text supplies the drawing, so the feathering and stroke weight can vary. The character itself remains ➸.
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How to type or find ➸
- Search it as
- feathered arrow · ornamental arrow · dingbat arrow · arrow symbol
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
➸\27B8Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.