U+27A4 · Other symbol
Black Rightwards Arrowhead Symbol ➤
➤ is black rightwards arrowhead, U+27A4, in the Dingbats block. It was added in Unicode 1.1, and Unicode files it under Other symbol.
Also known as
Unicode 1.0 called this character black right arrowhead. The standard renamed it later, but documents, fonts and font-editing tools from that era still use the old name.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+27A4 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | ➤ | |
| HTML decimal | ➤ | |
| CSS | \27A4 | |
| JavaScript | \u{27A4} | |
| Python | \U000027A4 | |
| Java / C# | \u27A4 | |
| Rust | \u{27a4} | |
| Swift | \u{27A4} | |
| PHP | \u{27A4} | |
| URL encoded | %E2%9E%A4 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 9E A4 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | 27A4 | |
| Base64 | 4p6k | |
| Decimal | 10148 | |
| Category | Other symbol (So) | |
| Introduced | Unicode 1.1 | |
Will ➤ survive being pasted?
- Normalisation. Yes. ➤ is unchanged by NFKC, so it survives normalising systems intact.
- Legacy encodings. ➤ is Unicode-only — it has no Latin-1 equivalent, so a system stuck on an 8-bit encoding cannot represent it.
- Size. 3 bytes in UTF-8. Character-limited fields — SMS, bios, some form validators — usually count bytes, not characters.
Unicode cross-references
The standard points readers of ➤ at these characters — usually because they look alike, or because one is the correct choice where the other is often used by mistake.
Nearby in Dingbats
Zapf Dingbats, encoded character for character: ornamental stars, crosses, check marks, scissors and pointing hands. The check marks and crosses here are the ones most often pasted into documents and spreadsheets.
How to type ➤
| Windows | Type 27A4 then press Alt+X |
|---|---|
| macOS | Press Ctrl+Cmd+Space, then search for “black rightwards arrowhead” |
| Linux | Press Ctrl+Shift+U, type 27a4, press Enter |
| HTML | ➤ |
About Unicode’s Other symbol category
Unicode files this under "other symbol" — the catch-all for pictographs, signs and marks that are neither maths, currency, nor letter-like. It is the largest symbol category in the standard.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I type the ➤ black rightwards arrowhead symbol?
- On Windows, type 27A4 and press Alt+X. On Linux press Ctrl+Shift+U then 27a4. On any system the quickest route is the copy button on this page.
- What is the code for ➤?
- Black Rightwards Arrowhead is U+27A4. In UTF-8 it takes 3 bytes. The table above lists every escape format.
- What kind of character is ➤?
- Black Rightwards Arrowhead is filed under Other symbol in the Dingbats block, and was introduced in Unicode 1.1. Unicode files this under "other symbol" — the catch-all for pictographs, signs and marks that are neither maths, currency, nor letter-like. It is the largest symbol category in the standard.