Heavy Round-Tipped Rightwards Arrow

It directs you toward what comes next. After a label, it means open, continue, or go here. Between terms, context decides whether it marks movement, transition, or implication.

Where did ➜ come from?

It evolved rather than having one documented inventor. Symbolic arrows appear around 1737 in a French engineering diagram for water flow and wheel rotation. Earlier Western manicules—pointing hands beside text—had a related directing role, but are not proven ancestors of ➜. By the late nineteenth century, arrows were losing weapon-like detail. In 1922, arrows entered logical implication. As of 2026, reviewed sources establish no single cross-cultural origin for this exact style.