Technical information

Symbol
NameHeavy wide-headed rightwards arrow
Unicode numberU+2794
CategoryBarb arrows
DescriptionThe Unicode character ➔, or U+2794, is known as the "Heavy Wide-Headed Rightwards Arrow". It belongs to the "Dingbats" block, which includes various ornamental characters, arrows, and symbols. This character falls under the "Symbol, Other" category. Visually, it appears as an arrow pointed towards the right with a larger than average arrowhead, giving it a 'wide-headed' appearance. The 'heavy' attribute refers to the thick and bold depiction of the arrow, making it more prominent compared to lighter or thin arrows. It is commonly used to denote direction, continuation, or to indicate a proceeding point in a sequence or process.

Encoding

HTML Entity➔
HTML Entity (hex)➔
URL Escape Code%E2%9E%94
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x9E 0x94
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10011110:10010100
UTF-160x2794
UTF-320x00002794

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u2794"
CSS Code\2794
JavaScript"\u2794"
Perl\x{2794}
Python 2u"\u2794"
Python 3\u2794
Ruby\u{2794}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ➔ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

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72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#10132;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\2794";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References