White Upward Arrow Inside a Triangle Arrowhead

It points up; its exact role depends on the surrounding context.

Wingdings was a font that assigned symbols to keys. A 2011 Unicode proposal labels its existing source glyph “draw double up.” A 2012 working document groups it with matching left, right, and down forms. A 2014 Unicode discussion explains the aim: map Wingdings and Webdings symbols to Unicode text so they can travel beyond the original fonts.

The proposal treats the Wingdings glyph as already existing but does not date its first appearance. This history traces a font-specific drawing mark becoming portable text, not a change from one cultural meaning to another. Use it for upward direction when a diagram or system gives it that role.

What does it mean in a message?

Read it as “up” unless the sender gives you another clue.

“Draw double up” is a historical Wingdings label, not an instruction to repeat the mark. If someone sends 🢕 alone, ask what it points to when the surrounding message does not make that clear.