What ⬏ means
It shows a route continuing through a right-to-up bend. In a diagram or notation, the surrounding material tells you what the route connects or where to follow it.
The history of ⬏ includes a proposal from a Unicode working group in 2003. It called for four horizontal arrows with upward or downward tips to complete an unfinished set, suggested drawing them by rotating existing arrow designs, and said their community use at the time was unknown.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Upwards Arrow With Tip Rightwards
For ⬏ vs ↱, check the shaft: ↱ rises before its tip points right; ⬏ travels right before its tip points up.
Rightwards Arrow With Corner Downwards
↴ makes a rightward run that turns down at a corner; ⬏ bends upward.
Rightwards Triangle-Headed Arrow With Long Tip Upwards
⮥ follows the same right-then-up path but has a triangular arrowhead and a longer tip.
Right Arrow Curving Up
⤴ curves from rightward to upward in a rounded bend and also has an emoji form, ⤴️; ⬏ is a plain text arrow.
Related characters
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Rightwards Arrow With Tip Downwards
Its shaft points right like ⬏'s, but its tip points down; they are the paired downward- and upward-tipped forms.
Leftwards Arrow With Tip Downwards
This is the leftward counterpart with a downward tip; ⬏ points right and has an upward tip.
Leftwards Arrow With Tip Upwards
This is the leftward counterpart with an upward tip; ⬏ points right and has the same upward tip.
Combination ideas
3Pointing back to the message above
Running along, then climbing up
Down-turn, up-turn: zigzag directions
Questions people ask
1Why does ⬏ display as a box?
It can if the active font and its fallback fonts lack ⬏; software then shows a missing-glyph box instead of the arrow.
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How to type or find ⬏
- Search it as
- bent arrow · arrow that turns up · upturn arrow · right then up arrow · diagram arrow · Unicode arrow
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
⬏CSS
\2B0FSource code
In JSON, Java, C, or Python source, write
\u2B0F.HTML and CSS
In HTML page markup, use
⬏; in CSS styling, use \2B0F.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⬏
HTML hex
⬏
CSS content
content: "\2B0F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%AC%8F
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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.