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🯊

white up-pointing chevron

White Up-Pointing Chevron

🯊 is an upward chevron whose clearest reading is simply its direction. It comes from TRS-80 home-computer screen graphics in the mid-1970s to mid-1980s, when ready-made characters could double as display art. As of September 2026, a blank box can mean an app's font lacks the glyph.

Text symbol
Search it as
trs-80 · terminal · computer · screen · graphics · caret · arrow · pointer
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 🯊 means

It is a standalone chevron pointing up. The TRS-80 was an early home computer; its character set included this mark as a screen graphic in the mid-1970s to mid-1980s home-computer era. Fixed-width character cells could hold ready-made shapes, which programs arranged into displays and pictures. The chevron's original role was visual.

In 2017, a proposal to add early-computer symbols to Unicode—the shared text standard used across devices—explained the preservation goal: old character data should remain convertible in both directions, including in emulators, programs that imitate old computers. If someone sends 🯊 alone, start with its upward shape; nearby words tell you what it points to.

Don't confuse it with

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^
Circumflex Accent
The ASCII caret ^ belongs to a basic computer text set; 🯊 is a different glyph from the TRS-80 screen graphics.
⇧
Upwards White Arrow
The white upward arrow ⇧ has a vertical shaft; 🯊 is a stemless chevron. They point the same way but are distinct characters.

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 1FBCA, 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 “white up-pointing chevron”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fbca, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🯊
CSS
\1FBCA
Microsoft Word on Windows
Type 1FBCA in Word for Microsoft 365 on Windows as of September 2026, then press Alt+X; it converts to 🯊 when the font supports it.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🯊
HTML hex
🯊
CSS content
content: "\1FBCA";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AF%8A
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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.

Families this belongs to

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Legacy computing935 symbols

𜰀𜰁𜰂𜰃𜰄𜰅𜰆𜰇𜰈𜰉𜰊𜰋