What 🡔 means
Up and to the left: north-west on a map. It means exactly what means: go toward the top-left corner, look up there, that way. People use it in notes, diagrams, instructions and decorative text the way they use any arrow.
"Sans-serif" is a typographers' word for letters without the small finishing strokes at the ends of lines; here it means the arrow has a clean shaft and a simple head. Arrows like this sat in Wingdings-style symbol fonts on Windows for years, where they were really just letters drawn as pictures. Around 2011 a proposal to bring those font symbols into Unicode gave them their own codes, so the arrow stays an arrow when you paste it into another program, font or system.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
3Worth knowing
- 🡔 belongs to a set of eight sans-serif arrows, one for every compass direction, all encoded side by side.
Questions people ask
2Is 🡔 an emoji?
No. It is a plain text symbol with no colour emoji version, so it takes the colour and style of the surrounding text.
Why do I see an empty box instead of the arrow?
Your font lacks it. Few fonts include this arrow; if readers might see a box, use , which nearly every device shows.
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How to type or find 🡔
- Search it as
- northwest arrow · up left arrow · upper left arrow · diagonal arrow · sans-serif arrow · U+1F854
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🡔\1F854Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.