Heavy Downwards Arrow With Equilateral Arrowhead

It marks downward direction with extra visual weight. Use it for a downward route, a lower item, or an emphasized cue; nearby text supplies the instruction. The Unicode Standard 16.0 describes arrows as directional, logical, or cursor-control symbols, so 🠛 has no single built-in command.

Its documented digital ancestry runs through a symbol font: Wingdings, a font filled with symbols, first appeared in Windows 3.1 in 1992. A 2011 ISO/IEC proposal places the equal-sided arrowhead series in the Wingdings3 inventory. These fonts put ready-drawn symbols into documents and webpages, but their glyphs depended on a font or private-use mapping. The proposal aimed to make the symbols searchable and interoperable as Unicode text.

The documented change for this arrow is technical: its design became addressable as a Unicode text character instead of through a font-bound mapping. Unicode Standard 16.0 groups it with arrows that use equal-sided triangular heads but vary in shaft weight, head size, and direction. Those are separate characters, not styling controls.

How do I type the heavy down arrow?

Use a Unicode-aware editor and enter it as text. In a document, use a font that contains the character; in source code, enter it directly in UTF-8 or use your programming language’s Unicode escape syntax.

A Wingdings3 keystroke selects a glyph through that font, while Unicode text stores a character value. Converting an old document may need an explicit mapping to preserve the intended symbol. The 2011 encoding proposal sought searchable, interoperable text in place of font-bound or private-use access.

A square, question mark, or blank means the font or app may lack a drawing for this character. Unicode display guidance identifies missing font coverage and app fallback as causes; a font that includes the glyph can restore its display without changing the character value.