What ⮴ means
It was proposed as a Wingdings symbol for standard encoding. A 2011 proposal to encode Wingdings and Webdings symbols lists this Wingdings arrow as entry 1199 and describes it as pointing left, then curving up.
Wingdings first appeared with Windows 3.1 in 1992. The proposal says symbols in these fonts used reserved code positions whose meaning depended on the font, or menu commands; standard Unicode character numbers would make them usable across systems. A 2012 draft places this design among eight ribbon arrows.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions 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.
How to type ⮴
⮴\2BB4Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.