What ⮕ means
It marks direction, order, or the next step.
Arrows mark paths in diagrams and signs. In 1737, an engineering diagram used one for water flow and waterwheel rotation; Unicode added ⮕ in 2014 to complete the four-way black-arrow family.
It completes the four-way black-arrow family with ⬅, ⬆, and ⬇.
Direct and instructional; its thick stroke adds visual weight.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsAfter a destination
Continue along that route.
Between two stages
The first step leads to the next.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions 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 ⮕
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 2B95, then Alt+X to get ⮕.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “rightwards black arrow”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2b95, then Enter or Space.
HTML
⮕CSS
\2B95Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⮕
HTML hex
⮕
CSS content
content: "\2B95";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%AE%95
1
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.