Symbols · Emoji 0.6
🔜Soon Arrow Emoji
It usually means “soon” or “coming up.” People use it to indicate something will happen relatively quickly.
The 🔜 emoji is an arrow pointing forward with a small circle at the tip.
- Unicode
- U+1F51C
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :soon:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🔜 Soon Arrow emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as soon emoji.
02 — Platforms
Soon Arrow emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F51C. 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
Soon Arrow emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :soon:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F51C.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🔜 Soon Arrow emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Soon Arrow 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
06 — Combinations
Soon Arrow emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around soon 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 soon 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: Soon Arrow
Code: U+1F51C · added 2010
Shortcode: :soon:
It usually means “soon” or “coming up.”
Unicode name: Right Arrow Curving Down
Code: U+2935 U+FE0F · added 2010
Shortcode: :arrow_heading_down:
Basically, it means something is going down.
11 — History
Where the 🔜 Soon 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+1F51C 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 E6B7.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Soon Arrow was approved as U+1F51C 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