Triangle-Headed Rightwards Arrow ➝

U+279D
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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.

Text is also available in the following languages: Español; Русский;

Unicode Name Triangle-Headed Rightwards Arrow
Unicode Number
HTML Code
CSS Code
Unicode Block Dingbats
Unicode Subblock Dingbat arrows
Unicode Version 1.1 (1993)
Version 1.1
Block Dingbats
Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) None
Composition Exclusion No
Case change 279D
Simple case change 279D
Grapheme_Base +
age 1.1
scripts Common
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

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