What 🡁 means
It points upward; “heavy compressed” describes its drawing. A 2011 Unicode proposal records its Wingdings source glyph as w-3195. Wingdings is a font that displayed symbols in place of ordinary letters; the proposal groups this glyph with matching heavy, compact arrows pointing in three other directions. Unicode later encoded the design as text.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
1A suggested note directing the reader to the preceding item; the words name what to look at.
Questions people ask
1Why does 🡁 show as a box?
Your font probably lacks a drawing for this character. Switch to one that includes it; Unicode assigns the symbol, while the font supplies its visible shape.
How to type 🡁
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1F841, 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 “upwards heavy compressed arrow”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1f841, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🡁CSS
\1F841Word for Windows
As of 2026, type `1F841` and press `Alt+X` to convert the hexadecimal code to the arrow.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🡁
HTML hex
🡁
CSS content
content: "\1F841";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%A1%81
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.