How do I type the ➯ notched lower right-shadowed white rightwards arrow symbol?

On Windows, type 27AF and press Alt+X. On Linux press Ctrl+Shift+U then 27af. On any system the quickest route is the copy button on this page.

What is the code for ➯?

Notched Lower Right-Shadowed White Rightwards Arrow is U+27AF. In UTF-8 it takes 3 bytes. The table above lists every escape format.

What kind of character is ➯?

Notched Lower Right-Shadowed White Rightwards Arrow 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.

U+27AF · Other symbol

Notched Lower Right-Shadowed White Rightwards Arrow Symbol ➯

➯ is notched lower right-shadowed white rightwards arrow, U+27AF, 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 notched lower right-shadowed white right arrow. 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+27AF`
HTML hex	`➯`
HTML decimal	`➯`
CSS	`\27AF`
JavaScript	`\u{27AF}`
Python	`\U000027AF`
Java / C#	`\u27AF`
Rust	`\u{27af}`
Swift	`\u{27AF}`
PHP	`\u{27AF}`
URL encoded	`%E2%9E%AF`
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 9E AF`
UTF-16 bytes	`27AF`
Base64	`4p6v`
Decimal	`10159`
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.

🢚U+1F89Arightwards arrow with notched tail

Other arrow characters

Unicode names 24 characters ending in “arrow”. They differ by direction, weight or decoration rather than by meaning.

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.

All 192 characters in Dingbats →

How to type ➯

Windows	Type `27AF` then press `Alt`+`X`
macOS	Press `Ctrl`+`Cmd`+`Space`, then search for “notched lower right-shadowed white rightwards arrow”
Linux	Press `Ctrl`+`Shift`+`U`, type `27af`, 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 ➯ notched lower right-shadowed white rightwards arrow symbol?: On Windows, type 27AF and press Alt+X. On Linux press Ctrl+Shift+U then 27af. On any system the quickest route is the copy button on this page.
What is the code for ➯?: Notched Lower Right-Shadowed White Rightwards Arrow is U+27AF. In UTF-8 it takes 3 bytes. The table above lists every escape format.
What kind of character is ➯?: Notched Lower Right-Shadowed White Rightwards Arrow 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.