In Unicode, long arrows occupy the range U+27F5.U+21F. There're plenty of roles arrows can play, and some of the arrows meanings you can see following. Arrows can indicate force directions in Physics, they can be used to point directions in public places or as Maths symbols. Also you can move to the page dedicated to that symbol.

If you are intrested in the meaning of any arrow, you should mouse over a symbol to see its name. Spacing Modifier Letters 02B0–02FF Meaning of Arrow Symbol Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs 1F300–1F5FF Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms FF00–FFEF Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols 20D0–20FF Combining Diacritical Marks Extended 1AB0–1AFF Combining Diacritical Marks 0300–036F Supplemental Mathematical Operators 2A00–2AFF Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows 2B00–2BFF Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B 2980–29FF Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A 27C0–27EF Other arrows occupies next sections of Unicode as well: The base arrows are placed in Arrows 2190–21FF section. In 1991 the first version of Unicode 1.0 contained 130 arrows. However, there're some kinds of arrows in Unicode to index other directions: upwards 🠕 and downwrads 🠗.Īll simple single-headed or double-headed arrows can be implemented by different character encodingsare of 8 directions: 2 horizontal, 2 vertical and 4 diagonal. Mostly there are horizontal arrows encoded in Unicode: 🢠 to the left and to the right 🢡. They can be used to indicate directions 🡲, to define logical flows ⇏ or for visual reference of arrow-keys →.Īrrow appereance can be absolutly different: arrows can be wavy ↝, zigzag ↯, heavy 🡇, different directed ⥄, circle ⭮, double-headed ⟷, feathered ➶ or ribbon-like ⮵. They have different functions and play different roles. There are more than 600 arrows in Unicode.

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