Triangle-Headed Rightwards Arrow ➝
Symbol Meaning
An arrow with a triangular tip and straight “tail” began to be used in various documents belonging to the XVIII century. This rather young symbol at first appeared on maps, it denoted the streams of rivers.
Today such an icon is applied not only on maps or schemes, but also in mathematical, logical, and chemical formulas and equations. Triangle-Headed Rightwards Arrow comes in handy when it's necessary to mark important elements in pictures, or to denote the wind directions, or to describe movements just in general.
If you need a symbol with a different design, you'll easily find it in Unicode: ➜ , ⇾ , ⇒ .
The symbol “Triangle-Headed Rightwards Arrow” is included in the “Dingbat arrows” subblock of the “Dingbats” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Triangle-Headed Rightwards Arrow |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Dingbats |
| Unicode Subblock | Dingbat arrows |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 279D |
| Simple case change | 279D |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9E 9D | 226 158 157 | 14851741 | 11100010 10011110 10011101 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 9D | 39 157 | 10141 | 00100111 10011101 |
| UTF-16LE | 9D 27 | 157 39 | 40231 | 10011101 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 9D | 0 0 39 157 | 10141 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 10011101 |
| UTF-32LE | 9D 27 00 00 | 157 39 0 0 | 2636578816 | 10011101 00100111 00000000 00000000 |
