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➝

triangle-headed rightwards arrow

Triangle-headed rightwards arrow

➝ is a right arrow with a small triangular head on a thin shaft, one of the dingbat arrows. It reads as “next,” “leads to,” or “see here,” so people put it between steps, after labels, and at the start of list lines. Its exact weight depends on the font.

Text symbol
Search it as
right arrow · triangle arrow · dingbat arrow · arrow symbol · text arrow · next arrow
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ➝ means

It points forward: next, leads to, or look here.

Arrows as direction signs took hold in eighteenth-century engineering diagrams and maps, showing water flow and wheel rotation; the drawn arrow gradually lost its feathers and kept the head. Earlier, pointing hands in medieval manuscripts marked important passages, and printers later cast small ornaments, called dingbats, for directions and emphasis. ➝ comes from that dingbat line.

A neat typographic pointer: more designed than a plain arrow, but not formal or emotional.

Some fonts draw it thinner or heavier, close to another right arrow.

What it means when someone sends it to you

3 readings
Between two steps
Move from the first step to the next.
After a label or name
Look toward the explanation, destination, or linked item.
In decorative text
Visual emphasis or ornament, without a literal route.

Don't confuse it with

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Questions people ask

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Why 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 279D, 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 “triangle-headed rightwards arrow”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 279d, then Enter or Space.
HTML
➝
CSS
\279D
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
➝
HTML hex
➝
CSS content
content: "\279D";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%9E%9D
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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.

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