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🔝TOP Arrow Emoji
The TOP arrow emoji 🔝 carries the codepoint U+1F51D and has been in the standard since Unicode 6.0 (2010). It belongs to Symbols → Arrows.
What 🔝 TOP 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, homie and top and files it under Symbols → Arrows.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F51D | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🔝 | |
| HTML decimal | 🔝 | |
| CSS | \1F51D | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F51D} | |
| Python | \U0001F51D | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDD1D | |
| Rust | \u{1f51d} | |
| Swift | \u{1F51D} | |
| PHP | \u{1F51D} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%94%9D | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 94 9D | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DD1D | |
| Base64 | 8J+UnQ== | |
| Decimal | 128285 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
- arrow
- homie
- top
- up
Appears in these collections
How to type 🔝
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “TOP 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 type1f51dand 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 🔝 TOP arrow emoji mean?+
🔝 is the TOP arrow emoji, tagged arrow, homie and top. 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 🔝?+
TOP arrow is U+1F51D. In HTML that is 🔝, in CSS \1F51D, and in JavaScript \u{1F51D}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🔝 emoji added?+
TOP 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 🔝 TOP arrow.