What ➾ means
It is a decorative arrow pointing right. Nearby words supply the destination.
Dingbats are decorative printer symbols. This arrow design is modeled on ITC Zapf Dingbats Series 100, a symbol font developed in 1978 and used on Apple laser printers in the 1980s.
Use ➾ for style, for precision
Use for technical instructions; ➾ styles a heading or transition.
Its outline and weight vary by font, which may lack the glyph.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Rightwards Arrow
→ is the plain right arrow; ➾ has an outlined dingbat style.
Heavy Wedge-Tailed Rightwards Arrow
➽ has a solid wedge tail; ➾ is outlined.
Rightwards White Arrow
⇨ is the standard outlined white right arrow in the Arrows block; ➾ is the open-outlined dingbat with a different head and tail.
Related characters
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Combination ideas
4Points to related material
Shows the change from before to after
Points to a pinned message or post
A decorative lead-in that points toward what follows.
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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➡️Right Arrow
→Rightwards Arrow
←Leftwards Arrow
⇒Rightwards Double Arrow
▻White Right-Pointing Pointer
▷White Right-Pointing Triangle
➻Heavy Teardrop-Shanked Rightwards Arrow
➼Wedge-Tailed Rightwards Arrow
➽Heavy Wedge-Tailed Rightwards Arrow
¦Broken Bar
°Degree Sign
■Black Square
□White Square
▢White Square With Rounded CornersHow to type or find ➾
- Search it as
- outlined arrow · right arrow · dingbat arrow · decorative arrow
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
➾CSS
\27BEUnicode input
Use your editor's character picker, or enter 27BE in its hexadecimal Unicode tool.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
➾
HTML hex
➾
CSS content
content: "\27BE";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%9E%BE
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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.