What ⬈ means
It guides the eye from lower left to upper right. On a chart, it can mark an increase; on a map, a route.
An engineering diagram from 1737 used arrows for water flow and waterwheel rotation. The broader arrow tradition also appears in maps, instructions, logic, and typography.
On October 26, 2004, a Unicode correction notice recorded a published ⬈ drawing pointing northwest despite its northeast name.
Neutral; it signals direction, with placement supplying the target.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
3Numbers going up
Rocketing upward
External link, opens somewhere else
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.
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How to type or find ⬈
- Search it as
- northeast arrow · up right arrow · diagonal arrow · arrow symbol
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⬈CSS
\2B08Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⬈
HTML hex
⬈
CSS content
content: "\2B08";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%AC%88
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.