Symbols · Emoji 0.6
🔝Top Arrow Emoji
Generally, it means “the best” or “number one.” People use it to show something is their favorite or the top choice.
The 🔝 emoji is a simple arrow pointing upwards.
- Unicode
- U+1F51D
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :top:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🔝 Top Arrow emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Top Arrow emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the top arrow as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Top Arrow emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :top:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F51D.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🔝 Top Arrow emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Top Arrow emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the top 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
Top Arrow emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around top 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — Apps
What 🔝 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the top 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: Top Arrow
Code: U+1F51D · added 2010
Shortcode: :top:
Generally, it means “the best” or “number one.”
Unicode name: End Arrow
Code: U+1F51A · added 2010
Shortcode: :end:
Generally, it just means "the end."
11 — History
Where the 🔝 Top 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+1F51D 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
SoftBank E24C.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Top Arrow was approved as U+1F51D 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