What ➣ means
From ITC Zapf Dingbats, a classic font of printer's symbols. Unicode's Dingbats arrows were closely modelled on that typeface, which is why ➣ sits beside scissors, pencils and check marks. A dingbat is a practical or decorative print symbol; the word goes back to at least the early 19th century.
Unicode fixes only the idea: a shaded arrowhead pointing right. Each font draws its own version, so on your screen the shading may look different or the arrow may appear flat.
Neutral and layout-minded: it reads as a pointer or list bullet, not an emotional reaction.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions 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 ➣
➣\27A3Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.