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

Block

Arrows[1] (PDF)
0123456789ABCDEF
U+219x
U+21Ax
U+21Bx
U+21Cx
U+21Dx
U+21Ex
U+21Fx
Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 17.0

Emoji

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

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.

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 pointsCountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
1.0.0U+2190..21EA91(to be determined)
Moore, Lisa (1999-11-04), "Motion 80-M22", Minutes from the joint UTC/L2 meeting in Seattle, June 8-10, 1999
"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
Constable, Peter (2010-10-30), "6. Annotations to be changed for existing characters", UTC Liaison Report from WG2
Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)
Pentzlin, Karl (2012-10-08), Revised proposal to incorporate the symbols of ISO/IEC 9995-7:2009
3.0U+21EB..21F39N1138LaBonté, Alain (1995-01-30), Proposal to add new characters (Keyboard related) to 10646
Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1995-05-03), "6.1.6", Unconfirmed minutes of SC2/WG2 Meeting 27, Geneva
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1996-01-26), Minutes of Meeting 29, Tokyo
L2/97-128N1564Paterson, Bruce (1997-05-15), Draft pDAM for various additional characters (the "holding bucket")
L2/97-167Suignard, Michel (1997-07-03), Report of ad hoc group on keyboard symbols
Position on PDAM-NN - Symbols - ref N1625, 1997-08-05
L2/97-288Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), "7.3", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June – 4 July 1997
N1682Text of ISO 10646 - AMD 22 for PDAM registration and PDAM ballot, 1997-12-17
, )Summary of Voting/Table of Replies - Amendment 22 - Symbols, 1998-04-15
Paterson, Bruce (1998-09-22), Disposition of comments on PDAM.22 (2nd draft)
ISO/IEC 10646-1/FPDAM 22, AMENDMENT 22: Keyboard Symbols, 1998-10-22
Paterson, Bruce; Everson, Michael (1998-10-22), Disposition of Comments - FPDAM22 - Keyboard Symbols - SC2 N3191
, , )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25
Paterson, Bruce (1999-04-14), Text for FDAM ballot ISO/IEC 10646 FDAM #22 - Keyboard symbols
3.2U+21F41Beeton, Barbara; Freytag, Asmus; Ion, Patrick (2001-04-02), Additional Mathematical Symbols
Freytag, Asmus (2001-04-03), Additional Mathematical Characters (Draft 10)
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-09-09), "7.7 Mathematical Symbols", Minutes from SC2/WG2 meeting #40 -- Mountain View, April 2001
U+21F5..21FF11Whistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2000-04-19), Encoding Additional Mathematical Symbols in Unicode
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-07-21), "8.18", Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24
Moore, Lisa (2000-08-08), "Motion 83-M11", Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83

See also