What ⤴️ means
A turn upward, or a pointer to something above.
Position decides the reading. After a reference, it sends you up the thread. Beside a price or score, it says the trend turned up. In directions, it is literal: go right, then climb.
Neutral and functional, with a slight optimistic tilt around progress.
After a reference, it points upward; it is not praise.
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsAfter “see above”
Scroll up to the earlier message, image or link.
Beside a number
An upturn or increase.
In route directions
Turn right, then continue upward.
Don't confuse it with
2Combination ideas
2The link is in the message above.
The trend turned upward.
Worth knowing
- The characters behind ⤴️ existed in Unicode 8 years before anyone was allowed to draw them in colour: Unicode 3.2 in 2002, emoji presentation in 2010.
- ⤴️ is not one character. It is 2 of them glued together, which is why deleting it sometimes takes two presses of backspace and why it breaks character counters.
Questions people ask
1Why does ⤴️ look different on my phone?
Artwork. As of 2026, platforms differ in colour, weight and finish; the right-then-up path stays the same.
How to type ⤴️
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “right arrow curving up”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “right arrow curving up”.
Chat apps
:arrow_heading_up:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
⤴️Codes and encoding2 code points
HTML decimal
⤴️
HTML hex
⤴️
CSS content
content: "\2934\FE0F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%A4%B4%EF%B8%8F
1
On screen
2
Code points
2
JS .length
6
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.