What 🮴 means
It is an Apple IIgs return mark. The 1989 Apple note says early MouseText joined F and G into a running figure; later, F became this mark and G a window-title strip.
Is 🮴 the same as ?
They are related, separate arrow characters. Unicode cross-references with 🮴; is the standard downwards arrow with its tip pointing left.
Don't confuse it with
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Downwards Arrow With Tip Leftwards
Choose ↲ for the standard down-left arrow. 🮴 is the separate MouseText return mark preserved from Apple IIgs.
Return Symbol
⏎ is the standard Return-key symbol on a blank background; 🮴 shows its arrow light on a dark cell.
Downwards Arrow With Corner Leftwards
↵ is the plain down-then-left arrow often used for Enter; 🮴 is the reverse-video version, light on dark.
Combination ideas
3Hit the Return key.
An old computer waiting for you to press Return.
Enter, enter, enter: clicking through the prompts.
Questions people ask
1Why does 🮴 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
More like this
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↵Downwards Arrow With Corner Leftwards
⏎Return Symbol
↩️Right Arrow Curving Left
⬇️Down Arrow
↓Downwards Arrow
🮲Left Half Running Man
🮳Right Half Running Man🮵Leftwards Arrow And Upper And Lower One Eighth Block
␀Symbol For Null
␁Symbol For Start Of Heading
␂Symbol For Start Of Text
␃Symbol For End Of Text
␄Symbol For End Of TransmissionCollections with 🮴
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How to type or find 🮴
- Also called
- inverse carriage return symbol
- Search it as
- mousetext · iigs · return · carriage · arrow
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
🮴CSS
\1FBB4AppleSoft BASIC
For Apple II text, Apple's 1989 instructions use
PR#3, output CHR$(27) and CHR$(15), then print F in AppleSoft BASIC. Output CHR$(24) and CHR$(14) to restore the display.HTML character reference for 🮴
Use
🮴 as a numeric character reference in an HTML document.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🮴
HTML hex
🮴
CSS content
content: "\1FBB4";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AE%B4
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On screen
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Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.