Squat Black Rightwards Arrow ➧
Symbol Meaning
Previously, to indicate direction, an image of a hand or a footprint was used. Around the XVIII century, the first icons appeared on maps, similar to modern arrows – with a triangular tip and a straight line.
Today there are more than 600 characters with arrows of different shapes in Unicode. One of the options is a flattened shaded arrow pointing to the right. Unlike icons with classic proportions– ➜ , ⇾ , ⇒ , this symbol has a short fat tail and a thick tip.
The symbol “Squat Black 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 | Squat Black 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 | 27A7 |
| Simple case change | 27A7 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9E A7 | 226 158 167 | 14851751 | 11100010 10011110 10100111 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 A7 | 39 167 | 10151 | 00100111 10100111 |
| UTF-16LE | A7 27 | 167 39 | 42791 | 10100111 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 A7 | 0 0 39 167 | 10151 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 10100111 |
| UTF-32LE | A7 27 00 00 | 167 39 0 0 | 2804350976 | 10100111 00100111 00000000 00000000 |
