Symbols · Emoji 0.6
🔃Clockwise Vertical Arrows Emoji
It usually means "refresh" or "reload." People use it when they want someone to check something again, like a website or a conversation.
The 🔃 emoji shows two arrows pointing clockwise and vertically.
- Unicode
- U+1F503
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :arrows_
clockwise: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🔃 Clockwise Vertical Arrows emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 6.
02 — Platforms
Clockwise Vertical Arrows emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F503. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Clockwise Vertical Arrows emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :arrows_clockwise:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F503.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🔃 Clockwise Vertical Arrows emoji
No picker to hand? The clockwise vertical arrows can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Clockwise Vertical Arrows emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Clockwise Vertical Arrows emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around clockwise vertical arrows for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🔃 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
08 — Apps
What 🔃 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the clockwise vertical arrows lands changes how it is taken.
10 — Difference
🔃 vs 🔄 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Clockwise Vertical Arrows
Code: U+1F503 · added 2010
Shortcode: :arrows_clockwise:
It usually means "refresh" or "reload."
Unicode name: Counterclockwise Arrows Button
Code: U+1F504 · added 2015
Shortcode: :arrows_counterclockwise:
Generally, it means “refresh” or “reload.”
11 — History
Where the 🔃 Clockwise Vertical Arrows emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F503 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🔃 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E735, KDDI au EB0D.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Clockwise Vertical Arrows was approved as U+1F503 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🔃 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ