What 🗚 means
It means “make the text bigger” — enlarge the font.
The glyph started as the Webdings font size sign — a picture sitting on the b key of a symbol font Microsoft designed in 1997 for web graphics and interface icons. Font-mapped pictures could not be searched or exchanged as plain text, so a 2011 proposal recorded it as w-0062 “FONT SIZE SIGN,” a 2012 review renamed it “INCREASE FONT SIZE SYMBOL,” and it entered Unicode 7.0 in 2014.
Use it literally — a note about text size or readability, not emotion. Sent alone it reads like a stray toolbar command, so give it a couple of words for company. As of 2026 it carries no established slang or cultural meaning.
How do I type 🗚?
Insert code point U+1F5DA — a text character, not an emoji.
In Microsoft Word, open Insert > Symbol or type 1F5DA and press Alt+X; in HTML, write 🗚. Either way the result is a font-drawn glyph rather than vendor artwork, and where no installed font carries it, readers see a placeholder square instead of the sign.
Literal and technical — obscure as a message, normal as a formatting cue.
Sent alone it looks like a stray toolbar command, not a thought.
Don't confuse it with
2Questions people ask
2Is 🗚 an emoji?
No. It is a text symbol drawn by the reader's font, not vendor emoji artwork — so it never gets a colored emoji design.
Why does 🗚 show up as an empty box?
A missing font glyph. When no installed font draws this code point, the system borrows another font or shows a placeholder square.
How to type 🗚
🗚\1F5DACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.