→Arrow symbol
The workhorse arrow — used in notes, menus and “this leads to that”.
Looking for the colour emoji instead? ➡️ Right Arrow — same idea, drawn as a picture by each platform.
- Unicode
- U+2192
- Alt code
- Alt+8594
- HTML
- →
- Unicode name
- Rightwards Arrow
Where the Arrow symbol comes from
The arrow as a mathematical sign is surprisingly recent: it spread through logic and set theory in the early twentieth century, where it came to mean “implies” and “maps to”. Before that, direction in text was written out in words.
Outside maths it is the standard way to write a path or a sequence — File → Export, Settings → Keyboard, cause → effect. It reads instantly and takes one character where an em dash and a word would take five.
Arrow symbol codes
Tap any value to copy it. All of them produce the same character — they just belong to different places.
How to type → on any keyboard
Keyboard, code, markup or document — the route to U+2192 differs by tool.
Will → actually show up?
We checked 147 fonts installed on a normal machine and counted how many of them contain this character. A symbol missing from a font is drawn as an empty box — the text is still correct, it just cannot be drawn.
Safe in most places. Common fonts have it. Older or decorative fonts sometimes do not, so a fallback font will kick in.
Symbols people confuse with →
These look alike but are different characters — different codes, different fonts, sometimes different meaning.
Other marks and signs
Symbols from the same family, each with its own page: where it came from, how to type it and how well fonts support it.
Arrows
Every arrow in Unicode — up, down, curved, doubled, crossed.