Every arrow on this page is a real Unicode character, not an image. Click one to copy it, then paste it into a username, a bio, a caption, a document or a message — it travels as text, so it keeps working wherever text works.
This is a practical arrow symbol copy and paste reference rather than a Unicode encyclopedia. The arrows are grouped by direction and style so you can find the one you want by shape instead of scrolling a single long grid: right, left, up, down, diagonal, double, curved, long, fancy and aesthetic.
Quick Arrow Symbols to Copy and Paste
These twenty-four cover almost every everyday use. If you are here for a single arrow, it is very likely one of these:
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Each of them also appears in its own group below, alongside the less common variants of the same shape.
Basic Arrow Symbols
If you only take one group away from this arrow symbol copy and paste collection, make it this one. The basic set is the directional core of Unicode's Arrows block. These have the widest font support of anything on this page, which makes them the safest choice for a username or any field you do not control the rendering of.
Right Arrow Symbols
The right arrow is the most-used arrow in text, standing in for "leads to", "next" or "see".
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Left Arrow Symbols
Left arrows read as back, previous, or a pointer to something immediately before them.
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Up Arrow Symbols
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Down Arrow Symbols
Down arrows are the ones most often used to point at a link or a caption underneath.
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Left-Right Arrow Symbols
Double-ended arrows indicate a two-way relationship or an exchange rather than a single direction.
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Up-Down Arrow Symbols
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Diagonal Arrow Symbols
Diagonals carry a sense of movement that the four cardinal arrows do not, which is why they turn up in growth and trend contexts.
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Double Arrow Symbols
Double arrows are drawn with two parallel strokes. In mathematics ⇒ means implication and ⇔ means equivalence, but in ordinary text they simply read as a heavier, more emphatic arrow than the single-stroke version.
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Curved Arrow Symbols
Curved arrows turn, loop or double back. They are the right choice for undo and redo (↶ ↷), for replies (↩ ↪), and for pointing around a corner rather than straight at something (⤴ ⤵).
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Long and Extended Arrow Symbols
Long arrows come from Unicode's Supplemental Arrows-A block and are drawn with an extended shaft. They are genuinely wider characters rather than a normal arrow with spaces around it, so they hold their shape when text wraps.
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There are only six that render as clean long arrows and have dependable font support. Padding this group with rarely-supported characters would make it longer and less useful.
Fancy Arrow Symbols
The fancy arrows come from the Dingbats block, where they were designed as printers' ornaments rather than as directional notation. They are heavier and more graphic than the basic set, which is what makes ➜ and ➤ so common in bios and headings.
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If you like this weight of character, the decorative symbols page collects more Dingbats ornaments in the same style.
Aesthetic Arrow Symbols
"Aesthetic" is a usage label, not a Unicode classification — no character is officially designated aesthetic. What people mean by it is the wavy, feathered and curling forms, which read as decoration first and direction second.
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Read also: → Arrow Symbols tool — search and copy the full set with one click
Arrow Symbols for Usernames and Nicknames
The most common arrow symbol copy and paste destination is a name field. Arrows work well in display names because they frame a name without competing with it. A single ➜ or ⇢ beside a word reads as deliberate; three stacked arrows read as noise.
The important caveat is that no platform guarantees every Unicode character in every field. Username fields and display-name fields usually have different rules on the same service — a display name that accepts ➤ may sit beside a username handle that accepts only letters, numbers and underscores. Test the arrow in the actual field before committing to it.
If you want a name to build around rather than a symbol to decorate one, the nickname generator proposes candidates you can then frame with an arrow.
For the wider set of characters that survive name fields, our guide to symbols for nicknames goes well beyond arrows.
Gaming handles are their own case, because in-game name fields tend to be stricter than social profiles. Our guide to using gaming symbols in usernames covers what those fields usually accept.
Arrow Symbols for Instagram, TikTok and Social Media
A bio is the other place arrow symbol copy and paste gets used constantly, because an arrow does the job of a word while costing one character. Some patterns that work:
- → Follow
- ➜ More
- ↘ Link below
- ↑ New post
- ↓ Read more
- ← Back
- ⇢ Next
These are usage examples rather than additions to the collection above. None of these platforms publishes a list of permitted characters for bios, so support is best established by pasting and looking rather than by assuming. For more on styling text around the arrows, see our social media text tools and the Instagram fonts and symbols page.
Arrow Symbols for Text, Notes and Designs
Outside social media, arrows earn their place in anything with structure: steps in instructions, a route through a menu path such as Settings ⇢ Privacy, cross-references in notes, and labels in text-only diagrams where a drawing is not an option.
The distinction worth holding on to is that these are text arrows, not icons. A Unicode arrow inherits the size, weight and colour of the surrounding type, can be searched for, and survives being copied between applications. A graphical arrow icon is an image and does none of those things. That is also why an arrow pasted into a spreadsheet or a code comment keeps behaving like a character.
Arrow Symbols vs Arrow Emojis
This is where most arrow pages are wrong, so it is worth being exact. Of the 177 arrows on this page, none render as colour emoji by default — every one is a text character first.
Fourteen of them do have an emoji form available: ↔ ↕ ↖ ↗ ↘ ↙ ↩ ↪ ➡ ⤴ ⤵ ⬅ ⬆ ⬇. These are the arrows you may have seen appear as coloured tiles. That only happens when the character is followed by an invisible variation selector (U+FE0F), which requests the emoji presentation. Copied from this page they come without it, so you get the text form.
The remaining 163 have no emoji form at all and cannot turn into one. If you specifically want the coloured versions, they belong to the emoji collection rather than here.
What Are Arrow Unicode Symbols?
Unicode assigns every character a number called a code point — the right arrow → is U+2192, named RIGHTWARDS ARROW. That number is what actually gets copied and stored. The shape you see is supplied separately by whichever font is rendering the text.
This split explains most arrow behaviour. The same code point can look noticeably different between a phone, a browser and a print document, because three different fonts are drawing it, while remaining the same character underneath. The authoritative reference for what each one is called and where it sits is the Unicode Consortium's official code charts.
Arrow Symbol Copy and Paste: How to Use These Arrows
The arrow symbol copy and paste process on this page takes one click:
- Find the arrow you want in the group that matches its shape.
- Click it — the character is copied to your clipboard.
- Paste it where you need it.
Pasting uses the usual shortcuts: Ctrl+V on Windows and Linux, Cmd+V on a Mac. On a phone, press and hold in the field and choose Paste. If you would rather not use the copy button, selecting the arrow and pressing Ctrl+C or Cmd+C works identically — it is ordinary text.
Why Does an Arrow Look Different?
An arrow that looks one way on your screen and another on someone else's is normal rather than broken. The usual causes:
- Different fonts. Each font draws its own version of ➜, and the differences in weight and angle can be considerable.
- Font fallback. If the current font has no glyph for a character, the system substitutes another font for that one character, which is why a single arrow can look out of place in a line of text.
- Operating system. Windows, macOS, Android and iOS ship different default fonts.
- Browser and application. Rendering engines differ in hinting and spacing.
- Text or emoji presentation. For the fourteen arrows listed above, the same character can appear as plain text or as a coloured tile.
None of this changes the underlying character. A ⇒ copied on one device is still U+21D2 when it arrives on another, whatever it ends up looking like.
What If an Arrow Shows as a Square?
An empty box — often called tofu — means the software is being asked to display a character it has no glyph for. It is a font problem, not a corrupted character.
- The font in use has no glyph for that code point.
- No font on the device covers it, which is more likely for the rarer arrows.
- The application restricts which characters it will render.
- The software predates the character being added to Unicode.
Switching to a more widely supported arrow is the reliable fix. Updating the device sometimes helps, because system fonts gain coverage over time, but it is not guaranteed — if no installed font contains the glyph, the box stays. The basic arrows near the top of this page are the safest choice when the destination is unknown.
How to Choose the Right Arrow Symbol
Choosing well matters more than choosing rare. Readers infer meaning from an arrow's shape and context rather than from its Unicode name, so these are conventions rather than rules:
- → plain direction, "next", or "leads to".
- ← back or previous.
- ↑ ↓ up and down, or above and below on a page.
- ↔ a two-way relationship.
- ↗ ↘ rising and falling — common in trend and growth contexts.
- ⇒ emphasis, or logical implication in technical writing.
- ➜ ➤ decorative emphasis where a plain arrow looks too light.
- ↩ ↪ replies, returns and undo.
| Arrow type | Examples | Common use |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | → ← ↑ ↓ | Everyday direction; widest font support |
| Double | ⇒ ⇐ ⇔ | Emphasis, or implication in technical writing |
| Curved | ↩ ↪ ↶ ⤴ | Replies, undo, turning a corner |
| Diagonal | ↗ ↘ ↖ ↙ | Trends, growth, movement |
| Long | ⟶ ⟵ ⟷ | Mappings and wider layouts |
| Decorative | ➜ ➤ ➸ | Bios, headings and ornament |
When the destination is a field you do not control, weight the choice toward the basic set. An arrow that renders everywhere is worth more than a rarer one that fails on a third of devices. Browse the wider copy-and-paste symbol library if you need characters beyond arrows, or the font generator to style the text around them.
Frequently Asked Questions
Read also: → Degree Symbol (°): Copy and Paste, How to Type & Uses
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the arrow symbol for copy and paste?
The most-copied arrow is the right arrow →, Unicode U+2192. Click it in the quick section above to copy it. Every arrow on this page is a text character, so it pastes into usernames, bios, documents and messages the same way ordinary letters do.
What is the Unicode arrow symbol?
There is no single one. Unicode contains hundreds of arrows spread across several blocks — the main Arrows block, Supplemental Arrows-A and B, Dingbats, and Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows. The basic right arrow → at U+2192 is the one most people mean.
How do I copy an arrow symbol?
Click the arrow you want and it is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it with Ctrl+V on Windows or Linux, Cmd+V on a Mac, or press and hold and choose Paste on a phone.
What is the right arrow symbol?
→ — U+2192, RIGHTWARDS ARROW. Common variants include the heavier ➜ and ➤ from the Dingbats block, the double-stroke ⇒, the dashed ⇢, and the long ⟶.
What is the left arrow symbol?
← — U+2190, LEFTWARDS ARROW. It usually reads as back or previous. The double-stroke form is ⇐ and the long form is ⟵.
What is the up arrow symbol?
↑ — U+2191, UPWARDS ARROW. ⇑ is the double-stroke version and ⬆ is the heavy black form, which is also one of the arrows that has a coloured emoji variant.
What is the down arrow symbol?
↓ — U+2193, DOWNWARDS ARROW. It is often used to point at a link or caption below it. ⇓ is the double form and ⬇ the heavy black form.
Can I use arrow symbols in usernames?
Often, but not always. Display-name fields usually accept them while strict username handles frequently do not, and the rules differ between platforms and even between two fields on the same platform. Paste it into the actual field and check before relying on it.
Why does an arrow show as a box?
An empty box means the font being used has no glyph for that character. It is a font-coverage problem, not a broken character. Switching to one of the basic arrows is the dependable fix; updating the device sometimes helps but is not guaranteed.
Why do arrow symbols look different on different devices?
Because Unicode defines the character while the font draws it. The same code point is rendered by different fonts on Windows, macOS, Android and iOS, so weight and shape vary. Fourteen arrows can also switch between text and emoji presentation depending on whether a variation selector follows them.
