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Arrow Symbols → ← ↑ ↓ — Copy & Paste + Alt Codes

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RIGHT

←

LEFT

↑

↓

DOWN

↔

BOTH WAYS

⇒

DOUBLE

⇔

IFF

↗

DIAGONAL

↩

HOOK BACK

⟶

LONG

➜

HEAVY ROUND

CHEVRONS

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The four basic arrows → ← ↑ ↓ (U+2190–U+2193) anchor Unicode's Arrows block — over a hundred pointers covering doubles ⇒, diagonals ↗, hooks ↩ and long forms ⟶. The right arrow is the workhorse: mapping A to B in commit messages, changelogs, keyboard-shortcut docs ("File → Save") and this very site's navigation.

Arrows are older than Unicode: they shipped in the original IBM PC character set, which is why the legacy Alt codes Alt+24 through Alt+27 still conjure ↑ ↓ → ← in many Windows apps — a 1981 keyboard trick that refuses to die.

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CHARNAMECODE POINTHTML ENTITY

→RIGHTWARDS ARROWU+2192→

←LEFTWARDS ARROWU+2190←

↑UPWARDS ARROWU+2191↑

↓DOWNWARDS ARROWU+2193↓

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▸ Windows

Legacy numpad codes: Alt+26 →, Alt+27 ←, Alt+24 ↑, Alt+25 ↓ (work in most apps). Otherwise Win+. and search "arrow".

▸ macOS / iOS

No default shortcut — press Ctrl+Cmd+Space and search "arrow", or set text replacements like -> → →.

▸ HTML / CSS

→ ← ↑ ↓ for the basics, ⇒ for ⇒, ↔ for ↔.

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Windows / macOS / Linux✓

iOS / Android✓

Discord / Slack / WhatsApp✓

X / Twitter✓

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[+] What are the Alt codes for arrows?

The classics: Alt+24 ↑, Alt+25 ↓, Alt+26 →, Alt+27 ← — typed on the numpad. They date to the original IBM PC character set, so support varies by app; the emoji picker (Win+.) is the modern fallback.

[+] What is the difference between → and ⇒?

Convention: the single arrow → means "goes to / becomes" (functions, navigation, renames), while the double arrow ⇒ means "implies" in logic and math. Mixing them is harmless in chat but noticed in technical writing.

[+] Why does → sometimes render as an emoji?

A few platforms give arrows emoji presentation (a blue box ➡️). That is U+2192 plus an automatic variation selector. Appending U+FE0E forces the plain text glyph, and the long arrow ⟶ is never emojified.

[+] Are arrows ASCII?

No — ASCII improvised with -> and =>, which survive in code to this day (and some editors render them as real arrows with font ligatures). True arrow glyphs start at U+2190.

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