🔼Upwards Button Emoji
Generally, it just means “up” or “increase. ” People use it to show something’s going up in value, number, or intensity.
The 🔼 emoji is basically an upwards-pointing button.
- Unicode
- U+1F53C
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :arrow_up_small:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🔼 Upwards Button emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Upwards Button emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the upwards button as 9 vendors ship it.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Upwards Button 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 :arrow_up_small:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the upwards button, code point U+1F53C.
How to type the 🔼 Upwards Button emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F53C when there is no key at all.
Upwards Button emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the upwards button as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Upwards Button emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around upwards button for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🔼, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🔼 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🔼 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F53C, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Where the 🔼 Upwards Button 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+1F53C 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
KDDI au E543.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Upwards Button was approved as U+1F53C 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.