What ⭔ means
It marks a hollow pentagon facing right.
The proposal ties its direction to a regular pentagon on the complex plane, a graph used for complex numbers, with one corner pointing right along the line for positive real numbers. That is a geometric explanation, not a prescribed message meaning.
Public review feedback on adding the shape arrived in January 2006; a 2007 Unicode working document included it before encoding. In a message, the surrounding words or the sender’s notation tell you what it marks.
Is ⭔ an emoji or an arrow?
It is a text symbol, not standardized emoji artwork.
Its point is a corner of the pentagon, so the character names a shape rather than a general action. A font draws it as text, which means its outline, weight, and spacing can vary.
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Don't confuse it with
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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.
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How to type or find ⭔
- Search it as
- hollow pentagon · pentagon outline · pentagon shape symbol
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⭔\2B54Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.