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⬇️Down Arrow Emoji
Tagged arrow, cardinal and direction, ⬇️ down arrow sits in Unicode's Arrows group inside Symbols. It was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010) at U+2B07 U+FE0F.
What ⬇️ down arrow means
Pointing at things: replies, links, swipe prompts and thread continuations. ⬆️ and ⬇️ direct attention to the post above or below, 🔄 signals a refresh or a repost, and ↩️ marks a reply. Five of them carry English words baked into the glyph, 🔙, 🔚, 🔛, 🔜 and 🔝, inherited from Japanese carrier emoji sets, which is why they look nothing like the rest.
Unicode tags this one arrow, cardinal and direction and files it under Symbols → Arrows.
Copy variants
down arrow carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How ⬇️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- ⬇U+2B07down arrow
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+2B07 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | ⬇️ | |
| HTML decimal | ⬇️ | |
| CSS | \2B07\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{2B07}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U00002B07\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \u2B07\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{2b07}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{2B07}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{2B07}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %E2%AC%87%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 AC 87 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | 2B07 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 4qyH77iP | |
| Decimal | 11015 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type ⬇️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “down arrow”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “arrow”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type2b07and Enter. - HTML — paste
⬇️.
How ⬇️ renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- ⬇️Apple
- ⬇️Segoe
- ⬇️Noto
- ⬇️System
Frequently asked questions
What does the ⬇️ down arrow emoji mean?+
⬇️ is the down arrow emoji, tagged arrow, cardinal and direction. Pointing at things: replies, links, swipe prompts and thread continuations. ⬆️ and ⬇️ direct attention to the post above or below, 🔄 signals a refresh or a repost, and ↩️ marks a reply. Five of them carry English words baked into the glyph, 🔙, 🔚, 🔛, 🔜 and 🔝, inherited from Japanese carrier emoji sets, which is why they look nothing like the rest.
What is the Unicode code for ⬇️?+
down arrow is U+2B07 U+FE0F. In HTML that is ⬇️, in CSS \2B07\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{2B07}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the ⬇️ emoji added?+
down arrow got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Arrows in Symbols.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ⬇️ down arrow.