What ➚ means
From technical diagrams, then printers' decorative dingbats.
In 1737 the engineer Bernard Forest de Bélidor drew an arrow in a hydraulics diagram to show water flow and a waterwheel turning. During the nineteenth century, arrows dropped their feathered tails and became plain marks for instructions, logic and page design.
➚ belongs to the dingbat tradition: pointer and ornament symbols set alongside type. Nearby words decide its reading: a figure going up, "head this way", or "look here".
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
4Something rising or going up.
Growing numbers: gains, growth or an uptrend.
Ups and downs.
Progress, improvement or moving to the next stage.
Questions people ask
1Why does ➚ look different in different fonts?
Because your font draws it. Stroke weight, angle and tail details vary between typefaces; the character and its up-right direction stay the same.
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Collections with ➚
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How to type or find ➚
- Search it as
- northeast arrow · up right arrow · diagonal arrow · dingbat arrow
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
➚CSS
\279ACodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
➚
HTML hex
➚
CSS content
content: "\279A";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%9E%9A
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.