Arrows (Unicode block)

Arrows (Unicode block)

Arrows is a Unicode block containing line, curve, and semicircle symbols terminating in barbs or arrows.

Block

Arrows (Unicode block)

Arrows Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
U+219x	←	↑	→	↓	↔	↕	↖	↗	↘	↙	↚	↛	↜	↝	↞	↟
U+21Ax	↠	↡	↢	↣	↤	↥	↦	↧	↨	↩	↪	↫	↬	↭	↮	↯
U+21Bx	↰	↱	↲	↳	↴	↵	↶	↷	↸	↹	↺	↻	↼	↽	↾	↿
U+21Cx	⇀	⇁	⇂	⇃	⇄	⇅	⇆	⇇	⇈	⇉	⇊	⇋	⇌	⇍	⇎	⇏
U+21Dx	⇐	⇑	⇒	⇓	⇔	⇕	⇖	⇗	⇘	⇙	⇚	⇛	⇜	⇝	⇞	⇟
U+21Ex	⇠	⇡	⇢	⇣	⇤	⇥	⇦	⇧	⇨	⇩	⇪	⇫	⇬	⇭	⇮	⇯
U+21Fx	⇰	⇱	⇲	⇳	⇴	⇵	⇶	⇷	⇸	⇹	⇺	⇻	⇼	⇽	⇾	⇿
Notes

Emoji

Arrows (Unicode block)

The Arrows block contains eight emoji: U+2194–U+2199 and U+21A9–U+21AA.

The block has sixteen standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the eight emoji, all of which default to a text presentation.

U+	2194	2195	2196	2197	2198	2199	21A9	21AA
base code point	↔	↕	↖	↗	↘	↙	↩	↪
base+VS15 (text)	↔︎	↕︎	↖︎	↗︎	↘︎	↙︎	↩︎	↪︎
base+VS16 (emoji)	↔️	↕️	↖️	↗️	↘️	↙️	↩️	↪️

History

Arrows (Unicode block)

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Arrows block:

<table><thead><tr><th>Version</th><th>Final code points</th><th>Count</th><th>L2 ID</th><th>WG2 ID</th><th>Document</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1.0.0</td><td>U+2190..21EA</td><td>91</td><td></td><td></td><td>(to be determined)</td></tr><tr><td>L2/99-176R</td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (1999-11-04), "Motion 80-M22", Minutes from the joint UTC/L2 meeting in Seattle, June 8-10, 1999</td></tr><tr><td>L2/10-351</td><td>N3897</td><td>"6. Annotations to be changed for existing characters", Proposal to incorporate symbols of ISO/IEC 9995-7:2009 and Amendment 1 into the UCS, 2010-09-21</td></tr><tr><td>L2/10-448</td><td></td><td>Constable, Peter (2010-10-30), "6. Annotations to be changed for existing characters", UTC Liaison Report from WG2</td></tr><tr><td>L2/11-438</td><td>N4182</td><td>Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)</td></tr><tr><td>L2/12-302</td><td>N4317</td><td>Pentzlin, Karl (2012-10-08), Revised proposal to incorporate the symbols of ISO/IEC 9995-7:2009</td></tr><tr><td>3.0</td><td>U+21EB..21F3</td><td>9</td><td></td><td>N1138</td><td>LaBonté, Alain (1995-01-30), Proposal to add new characters (Keyboard related) to 10646</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>N1203</td><td>Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1995-05-03), "6.1.6", Unconfirmed minutes of SC2/WG2 Meeting 27, Geneva</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>N1303 (html, doc)</td><td>Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1996-01-26), Minutes of Meeting 29, Tokyo</td></tr><tr><td>L2/97-128</td><td>N1564</td><td>Paterson, Bruce (1997-05-15), Draft pDAM for various additional characters (the "holding bucket")</td></tr><tr><td>L2/97-167</td><td>N1625</td><td>Suignard, Michel (1997-07-03), Report of ad hoc group on keyboard symbols</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>N1669</td><td>Position on PDAM-NN - Symbols - ref N1625, 1997-08-05</td></tr><tr><td>L2/97-288</td><td>N1603</td><td>Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), "7.3", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June – 4 July 1997</td></tr><tr><td>L2/98-005R</td><td>N1682</td><td>Text of ISO 10646 - AMD 22 for PDAM registration and PDAM ballot, 1997-12-17</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>N1830 (html, doc)</td><td>Summary of Voting/Table of Replies - Amendment 22 - Symbols, 1998-04-15</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>N1816R</td><td>Paterson, Bruce (1998-09-22), Disposition of comments on PDAM.22 (2nd draft)</td></tr><tr><td>L2/98-320</td><td>N1898</td><td>ISO/IEC 10646-1/FPDAM 22, AMENDMENT 22: Keyboard Symbols, 1998-10-22</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>N1897</td><td>Paterson, Bruce; Everson, Michael (1998-10-22), Disposition of Comments - FPDAM22 - Keyboard Symbols - SC2 N3191</td></tr><tr><td>L2/99-010</td><td>N1903 (pdf, html, doc)</td><td>Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25</td></tr><tr><td>L2/99-126</td><td></td><td>Paterson, Bruce (1999-04-14), Text for FDAM ballot ISO/IEC 10646 FDAM #22 - Keyboard symbols</td></tr><tr><td>3.2</td><td>U+21F4</td><td>1</td><td>L2/01-142</td><td>N2336</td><td>Beeton, Barbara; Freytag, Asmus; Ion, Patrick (2001-04-02), Additional Mathematical Symbols</td></tr><tr><td>L2/01-156</td><td>N2356</td><td>Freytag, Asmus (2001-04-03), Additional Mathematical Characters (Draft 10)</td></tr><tr><td>L2/01-344</td><td>N2353 (pdf, doc)</td><td>Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-09-09), "7.7 Mathematical Symbols", Minutes from SC2/WG2 meeting #40 -- Mountain View, April 2001</td></tr><tr><td>U+21F5..21FF</td><td>11</td><td>L2/00-119</td><td>N2191R</td><td>Whistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2000-04-19), Encoding Additional Mathematical Symbols in Unicode</td></tr><tr><td>L2/00-234</td><td>N2203 (rtf, txt)</td><td>Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-07-21), "8.18", Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24</td></tr><tr><td>L2/00-115R2</td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2000-08-08), "Motion 83-M11", Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83</td></tr></tbody></table>