Arrows (Unicode block)

Arrows
Range U+2190..U+21FF
(112 code points)
Plane BMP
Scripts Common
Assigned 112 code points
Unused 0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
1.0.0 91 (+91)
3.0 100 (+9)
3.2 112 (+12)
Note: [1][2]

Arrows is a Unicode block containing line, curve, and semicircle symbols terminating in barbs or arrows.

Block

Arrows[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+219x ← ↑ → ↓ ↔ ↕ ↖ ↗ ↘ ↙ ↚ ↛ ↜ ↝ ↞ ↟
U+21Ax ↠ ↡ ↢ ↣ ↤ ↥ ↦ ↧ ↨ ↩ ↪ ↫ ↬ ↭ ↮ ↯
U+21Bx ↰ ↱ ↲ ↳ ↴ ↵ ↶ ↷ ↸ ↹ ↺ ↻ ↼ ↽ ↾ ↿
U+21Cx ⇀ ⇁ ⇂ ⇃ ⇄ ⇅ ⇆ ⇇ ⇈ ⇉ ⇊ ⇋ ⇌ ⇍ ⇎ ⇏
U+21Dx ⇐ ⇑ ⇒ ⇓ ⇔ ⇕ ⇖ ⇗ ⇘ ⇙ ⇚ ⇛ ⇜ ⇝ ⇞ ⇟
U+21Ex ⇠ ⇡ ⇢ ⇣ ⇤ ⇥ ⇦ ⇧ ⇨ ⇩ ⇪ ⇫ ⇬ ⇭ ⇮ ⇯
U+21Fx ⇰ ⇱ ⇲ ⇳ ⇴ ⇵ ⇶ ⇷ ⇸ ⇹ ⇺ ⇻ ⇼ ⇽ ⇾ ⇿
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 11.0

Emoji

The Arrows block contains eight emoji: U+2194–U+2199 and U+21A9–U+21AA.[3][4]

The block has sixteen standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the eight emoji, all of which default to a text presentation.[5]

Emoji variation sequences
U+21942195219621972198219921A921AA
base code point↔↕↖↗↘↙↩↪
base+VS15 (text)↔︎↕︎↖︎↗︎↘︎↙︎↩︎↪︎
base+VS16 (emoji)↔️↕️↖️↗️↘️↙️↩️↪️

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Arrows block:

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
1.0.0U+2190..21EA91(to be determined)
L2/10-351N4317"6. Annotations to be changed for existing characters", Proposal to incorporate symbols of ISO/IEC 9995-7:2009 and Amendment 1 into the UCS, 2010-09-21
L2/10-448Constable, Peter (2010-10-30), "6. Annotations to be changed for existing characters", UTC Liaison Report from WG2
L2/11-438[lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3]N4182Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)
3.0U+21EB..21F39(to be determined)
L2/10-351N4317"5. Requested glyph changes for already encoded characters", Proposal to incorporate symbols of ISO/IEC 9995-7:2009 and Amendment 1 into the UCS, 2010-09-21
L2/10-448Constable, Peter (2010-10-30), "5. Requested glyph changes for already encoded characters", UTC Liaison Report from WG2
3.2U+21F41L2/01-142[lower-alpha 4]N2336Beeton, Barbara; Freytag, Asmus; Ion, Patrick (2001-04-02), Additional Mathematical Symbols
L2/01-156N2356Freytag, Asmus (2001-04-03), Additional Mathematical Characters (Draft 10)
L2/01-344N2353Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-09-09), Minutes from SC2/WG2 meeting #40 -- Mountain View, April 2001
U+21F5..21FF11L2/00-119[lower-alpha 4]N2191RWhistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2000-04-19), Encoding Additional Mathematical Symbols in Unicode
  1. ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
  2. ↑ See also L2/10-458, L2/11-414, L2/11-415, and L2/11-429
  3. ↑ Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents
  4. 1 2 Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B block for additional math-related documents

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  3. ↑ "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2018-05-21.
  4. ↑ "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2018-05-22.
  5. ↑ "UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.
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