What means
A right arrow knocked out of a filled square. In Unicode names, “negative” means reversed colours: instead of a dark arrow on a light page, the square is solid and the arrow is the light shape inside it. It reads the same as the ordinary : go right, next, continue.
It belongs to a set of four, one for each direction, added for compatibility with older computer terminals and character sets, whose screens built pictures out of character-sized cells. Unicode links it to the plain so text from those systems keeps its meaning. Outside retro-computing and documents converted from it, you will mostly meet it in symbol lists, used as a bold “next” marker.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
3Worth knowing
- “Negative” is the same word Unicode uses for white-on-black letters like , borrowed from photographic negatives where light and dark swap.
Questions people ask
2Why do I see an empty box instead of ?
Your font doesn't have it. The character arrived in Unicode 16.0 (2024), and as of 2026 many fonts still lack it. Switch to a font with legacy-computing symbols or use instead.
Is an emoji?
No. It is a text symbol with no colour emoji design, so it looks like whatever your font draws.
More like this
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Collections with
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How to type or find
- Also called
- boxed right arrow · inverted square right arrow
- Search it as
- arrow in square · black square arrow · inverted arrow · right arrow · legacy computing arrow
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🢶\1F8B6Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.