What 🢭 means
It is a white-arrow shaft component, not a directional arrow.
The width describes the shaft relative to a complete white-arrow design; the character itself has no arrowhead or direction. In ordinary chat, it gives no direction to follow, so the surrounding typography or layout has to explain why it appears.
The 2011 Wingdings proposal lists the matching source glyph for 🢭 as w-1250, among the arrow elements. It dates the first Wingdings fonts to Windows 3.1 in 1992. The proposal says these symbol sets had been accessed through font-specific private-use codes or symbol menus, and sought portable, searchable character codes.
How do I type 🢭?
Use a Unicode input method or a source-code escape.
In HTML, write 🢭; in CSS, use \1F8AD (including the space). Modern JavaScript accepts \u{1F8AD}. Java and JSON can use the UTF-16 surrogate pair \uD83E\uDCAD.
A font must include this character to draw it. Otherwise, the app may show a missing-glyph box, a blank, or a fallback shape.
Technical and typographic; in casual chat it appears as an unexplained font glyph.
Don’t use 🢭 as a directional arrow; it has no head or direction.
Don't confuse it with
3Questions people ask
2Why does 🢭 show as a box?
The font or app lacks a drawing for this character, so it may show a box, blank, or substitute shape. Use a font that supports the glyph.
Does 🢭 join with an arrowhead automatically?
No. Unicode does not define 🢭 as a combining character; an arrowhead beside it remains a separate glyph.
How to type 🢭
🢭\1F8ADCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.