Rightwards Triangle-Headed Arrow With Bold Shaft

It points onward: the next step, the result, or “look here”. You’ll see it between steps (Wash 🠪 Dry 🠪 Fold), and it can sit before a link, serve as a bullet in a list, or show cause and effect (late train 🠪 missed meeting). It usually carries no tone of its own; the words around it say what it points to.

Its family began as symbol fonts: Lucida Icons, Arrows, and Stars, designed in 1990–1991 and released as Microsoft Wingdings in 1992. In those fonts the arrow was stored as an ordinary keyboard character drawn in a special font, so without Wingdings 3 this one turned into a plain ª. Unicode gave the arrow its own code in 2014, so it now travels as real text between apps, as long as a font can draw it.

Because it is a text character, it takes the colour and size of the text around it. Its exact shape depends on the font, and a font that lacks it may show a box, sometimes with a question mark inside.