What ⬁ means
⬁ is the north west white arrow. Unicode classifies it as an “other symbol” — Unicode's shelf for signs that are neither maths, money nor punctuation and files it in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block; this site shelves it under Stars & signs.
Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.
How it is encoded
⬁ is a single code point, U2B01. In HTML that is ⬁, and in CSS \2B01.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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North East White Arrow
The same outlined diagonal arrow, turned northeast instead.
South East White Arrow
The same outlined diagonal arrow, turned southeast instead.
South West White Arrow
The same outlined diagonal arrow, turned southwest instead.
North West Black Arrow
It points northwest too, but is filled rather than outlined.
Combination ideas
3Heading northwest
Look back up and to the left
Balloon drifting up and away
Questions people ask
1Why does ⬁ show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
More like this
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How to type or find ⬁
- Search it as
- north west white arrow symbol · north west white arrow copy paste
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⬁CSS
\2B01Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⬁
HTML hex
⬁
CSS content
content: "\2B01";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%AC%81
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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.