What means
Its direction is rightward; context gives it a specific relation. A diagram or code tells you what the arrow connects or indicates, and the hook distinguishes its shape.
Where did come from?
Smalltalk is a programming language developed at Xerox PARC, a research lab, during the 1970s. A character chart shows in the Smalltalk-78 system font (the computer's built-in typeface), taken from a prototype Macintosh system disk. A 2021 proposal to add the glyph to Unicode (the shared text standard) aimed to keep older Smalltalk versions compatible; it maps to and describes its use among specialists and hobbyists as rare.
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2Questions 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.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- smalltalk · julia · hookunderrightarrow
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🢲\1F8B2\hookunderrightarrow and press Tab. Julia treats it as an arrow operator, grouped with arrow operators when reading an expression.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.