What 🡲 means
It points right to mark direction, movement, or sequence.
Use it between items when what comes first leads, points, or hands off to what follows. In diagrams, labels, and instructions, nearby text tells whether the link marks a route, next step, or target.
This arrow has a symbol-font lineage
Lucida Icons, Arrows, and Stars were symbol fonts: typefaces that assigned pictograms to character positions for documents and computer interfaces. Kris Holmes and Charles Bigelow designed them in 1990–91; Microsoft renamed and released the group as Wingdings in 1992. Unicode later gave such font-era symbols portable character identities, making them easier to exchange and search without a particular Wingdings mapping.
How do I type 🡲?
Enter U1F872 in an editor with Unicode input.
If an editor accepts hexadecimal or code-point input, use U1F872; the keystrokes depend on that app and operating system.
Do not rely on a Wingdings mapping for text exchange: it may display a picture only while that font is active. In browsers and editors, a font without this glyph may show a box or fallback drawing.
Technical and diagrammatic: it marks direction or sequence more naturally than a personal reaction.
A box points to missing font support, not a change in what the sender typed.
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2Is 🡲 an emoji?
No. Unicode treats 🡲 as a text symbol, not an emoji; its role here is to mark direction or sequence.
Why does 🡲 show as a box?
Font support. The active font may lack 🡲, producing a box or fallback drawing; choose a font that includes it.
How to type or find 🡲
- Search it as
- right arrow symbol · barb arrow · Wingdings arrow · wide-headed arrow · U+1F872
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🡲\1F872Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.





