Symbols · Emoji 0.6
🔛ON! Arrow Emoji
Generally, it just means “starting,” “going,” or “on.” It’s a quick way to show you're ready to begin or that something is active.
The 🔛 emoji, often called “On Arrow,” represents starting something or being in an active state.
- Unicode
- U+1F51B
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :on:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🔛 ON! Arrow emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 3 of them.
02 — Platforms
ON! Arrow emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the on! arrow has been drawn in 4 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
ON! Arrow 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 :on:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the on! arrow, code point U+1F51B.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🔛 ON! Arrow emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F51B when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
ON! Arrow emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the on! arrow as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
ON! Arrow emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around on! arrow 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 on! arrow 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: ON! Arrow
Code: U+1F51B · added 2010
Shortcode: :on:
Generally, it just means “starting,” “going,” or “on.”
Unicode name: Right Arrow Curving Up
Code: U+2934 U+FE0F · added 2010
Shortcode: :arrow_heading_up:
Generally, ⤴️ means “up,” “increase,” or “growing.”
11 — History
Where the 🔛 ON! Arrow 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+1F51B 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 E6B8.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
ON! Arrow was approved as U+1F51B 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