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{{short description|Graphical symbol or pictogram used to point or indicate direction}}
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[[File:Arrows in Okazaki.jpeg|300px|thumb|right|Advertising billboards in Okazaki, Japan, featuring many different arrow symbols]]

An '''arrow''' is a graphical [[Symbol|symbol]], such as ← or →, or a [[Pictogram|pictogram]], used to point or indicate direction. In its simplest form, an arrow is a [[Triangle|triangle]], [[Engineering:Chevron (insignia)|chevron]], or [[Kite (geometry)#Characterizations|concave kite]], usually
affixed to a [[Line segment|line segment]] or [[Rectangle|rectangle]],<ref name=DesignArrows >{{Cite web |url=https://www.travelwayfinding.com/design-arrows-wayfinding-signage/ |title=How to Design and Use Arrows on Signage for Wayfinding |website=Travelwayfinding |date=7 April 2019 |at=Key Point 5; Key Point 9 |access-date=17 July 2019}}</ref> and in more complex forms a representation of an actual [[Engineering:Arrow|arrow]] (e.g. ➵ U+27B5). The direction indicated by an arrow is the one along the length of the line or rectangle toward the single pointed end.

==History==
An older (medieval) convention is  the  [[Social:Manicule|manicule]] (pointing hand, 👈).
Pedro Reinel in c. 1504 first used the  [[Fleur-de-lis|fleur-de-lis]] as indicating north in a [[Earth:Compass rose|compass rose]]; 
the convention of marking the eastern direction with a cross is older (medieval).<ref>''The American Revolution, 1775-1783: An Atlas of 18th Century Maps and Charts, Theatres of Operations'', United States  Naval History Division (1972), [https://books.google.com/books?id=VYdCpYUAchYC&pg=PA14  14f.]</ref>
Use of the arrow symbol does not appear to pre-date the 18th century. An early arrow symbol is found in an illustration of Bernard Forest de Bélidor's treatise ''L'architecture hydraulique'', printed in France in 1737. The arrow is here used to illustrate the direction of the flow of water and of the water wheel's rotation. At about the same time, arrow symbols were used to indicate the flow of rivers in maps.<ref>E. H. Gombrich, "Pictorial Instructions" in: H. Barlow et al. (eds.), ''Images and understanding'', Cambridge University Press (1990).</ref>

A trend toward abstraction, in which the arrow's [[Engineering:Fletching|fletching]] is removed, can be observed in the mid-to-late 19th century. The arrow can be seen in the work of Paul Klee. In a further abstraction of the symbol, John Richard Green's ''A Short History of the English People'' of 1874 contained maps by cartographer Emil Reich, which indicated army movements by curved lines, with solid triangular arrowheads placed intermittently along the lines.<ref name=APHS2015>[https://printinghistory.org/arrow/ History of the Arrow], American Printing History Society (2015).</ref>

Use of arrow symbols in [[Mathematical notation|mathematical notation]] is still younger and developed in the first half of the 20th century.<ref>Green, J.J, Rossberg, M., and Ebert, P.A., : ''The Convenience of the Typesetter; Notation and Typography in Frege’s Grundgesetze der Arithmetik'', Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 21 (2015): 13-30, fn. 17 [http://soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/jjg/pdf/cott.pdf] | [http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/bsl.2015.5 DOI]</ref> 
[[Biography:David Hilbert|David Hilbert]] in 1922 introduced the arrow symbol representing [[Material conditional|logical implication]]. 
The double-headed arrow representing [[Logical equivalence|logical equivalence]] was introduced by Albrecht Becker in ''Die Aristotelische Theorie der Möglichkeitsschlüsse'', Berlin, 1933.<ref name=APHS2015/>

==Usage==
[[File:Fire exit.svg|thumb|right|An [[Engineering:Exit sign|exit sign]] with an arrow to indicate the exit is to the left]]
Arrows are universally recognised for indicating directions.<ref name="DesignArrows" /> They are widely used on [[Signage|signage]] and for [[Earth:Wayfinding|wayfinding]],<ref name="DesignArrows" /> and are often used in road surface markings.

Upward arrows are often used to indicate an increase in a numerical value, and downward arrows indicate a decrease.

In [[Mathematical logic|mathematical logic]], a right-facing arrow indicates [[Material conditional|material conditional]], and a left-right (bidirectional) arrow indicates [[If and only if|if and only if]], an upwards arrow indicates the NAND operator (negation of conjunction), an downwards arrow indicates the [[Logical NOR|NOR operator]] (negation of disjunction).

==Unicode==
In [[Unicode]], the block Arrows occupies the [[Hexadecimal|hexadecimal]] range U+2190–U+21FF, as described below.
{| class="wikitable"  style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; font-size:85%; empty-cells: show; border-collapse: collapse; border: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" 
! width="0" | Symbol || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Name || width="0*" | Symbol || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Name || width="0" | Symbol || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Name || width="0*" | Symbol || rowspan="2" style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Name
|-
! Hex || Hex || Hex || Hex
|-
!colspan="2" width="25%"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Picture of this symbol || colspan="2" width="25%" style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Picture of this symbol || colspan="2" width="25%" style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Picture of this symbol || colspan="2" width="25%" style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Picture of this symbol
|- class="Unicode"
|  style="font-size: 200%;" | ← || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Leftwards Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↬ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Rightwards Arrow With Loop ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇈ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Upwards Paired Arrows ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇤ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Leftwards Arrow To Bar
|- 
| U+2190 || U+21ac || U+21c8 || U+21e4
|-
|colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+2190.svg|25px]] ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21AC.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21C8.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21E4.gif]]
|- class="Unicode"
|  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↑ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Upwards Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↭ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Left Right Wave Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇉ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Rightwards Paired Arrows ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇥ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Rightwards Arrow To Bar
|-
| U+2191 || U+21ad || U+21c9 || U+21e5
|-
|colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+2191.svg]] ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21AD.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21C9.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21E5.gif]]
|- class="Unicode"
|  style="font-size: 200%;" | → || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Rightwards Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↮ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Left Right Arrow With Stroke ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇊ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Downwards Paired Arrows ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇦ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Leftwards Thick Arrow
|-
| U+2192 || U+21ae || U+21ca || U+21e6
|-
|colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+2192.svg]] ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21AE.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21CA.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21E6.gif]]
|- class="Unicode"
|  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↓ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Downwards Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↯ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Downwards Zigzag Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇋ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Leftwards Harpoon Over Rightwards Harpoon ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇧ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Upwards Thick Arrow
|-
| U+2193 || U+21af || U+21cb || U+21e7
|-
|colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+2193.svg]] ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21AF.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21CB.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21E7.gif]]
|- class="Unicode"
|  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↔ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Left Right Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↰ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Upwards Arrow With Tip Leftwards ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇌ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Rightwards Harpoon Over Leftwards Harpoon ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇨ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Rightwards Thick Arrow
|-
| U+2194 || U+21b0 || U+21cc || U+21e8
|-
|colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+2194.svg]] ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21B0.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21CC.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21E8.gif]]
|- class="Unicode"
|  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↕ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Up Down Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↱ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Upwards Arrow With Tip Rightwards ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇍ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Leftwards Double Arrow With Stroke ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇩ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Downwards Thick Arrow
|-
| U+2195 || U+21b1 || U+21&nbsp;cd || U+21e9
|-
|colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+2195.svg]] ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21B1.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21CD.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21E9.gif]]
|- class="Unicode"
|  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↖ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | North West Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↲ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Downwards Arrow With Tip Leftwards ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇎ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Left Right Double Arrow With Stroke ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇪ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Upwards Thick Arrow From Bar
|-
| U+2196 || U+21b2 || U+21ce || U+21ea
|-
|colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+2196.svg]] ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21B2.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21CE.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21EA.gif]]
|- class="Unicode"
|  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↗ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | North East Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↳ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Downwards Arrow With Tip Rightwards ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇏ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Rightwards Double Arrow With Stroke ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇫ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Upwards Thick Arrow On Pedestal
|-
| U+2197 || U+21b3 || U+21cf || U+21eb
|-
|colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+2197.svg]] ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21B3.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21CF.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21EB.gif]]
|- class="Unicode"
|  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↘ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | South East Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↴ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Rightwards Arrow With Corner Downwards ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇐ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Leftwards Double Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇬ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Upwards Thick Arrow On Pedestal With Horizontal Bar
|-
| U+2198 || U+21b4 || U+21d0 || U+21ec
|-
|colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+2198.svg]] ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21B4.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21D0.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21EC.gif]]
|- class="Unicode"
|  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↙ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | South West Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↵ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Downwards Arrow With Corner Leftwards ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇑ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Upwards Double Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇭ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Upwards Thick Arrow On Pedestal With Vertical Bar
|-
| U+2199 || U+21b5 || U+21d1 || U+21ed
|-
|colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+2199.svg]] ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21B5.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21D1.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21ED.gif]]
|- class="Unicode"
|  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↚ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Leftwards Arrow With Stroke ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↶ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Anticlockwise Top Semicircle Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇒ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Rightwards Double Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇮ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Upwards Thick Double Arrow
|-
| U+219a || U+21b6 || U+21d2 || U+21ee
|-
|colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+219A.svg]] ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21B6.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21D2.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21EE.gif]]
|- class="Unicode"
|  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↛ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Rightwards Arrow With Stroke ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↷ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Clockwise Top Semicircle Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇓ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Downwards Double Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇯ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Upwards Thick Double Arrow On Pedestal
|-
| U+219b || U+21b7 || U+21d3 || U+21ef
|-
|colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+219B.svg]] ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21B7.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21D3.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21EF.gif]]
|- class="Unicode"
|  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↜ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Leftwards Wave Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↸ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | North West Arrow To Long Bar ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇔ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Left Right Double Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇰ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Rightwards Thick Arrow From Wall
|-
| U+219c || U+21b8 || U+21d4 || U+21f0
|-
|colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+219C.svg]] ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21B8.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21D4.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21F0.gif]]
|- class="Unicode"
|  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↝ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Rightwards Wave Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↹ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Leftwards Arrow To Bar Over Rightwards Arrow To Bar ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇕ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Up Down Double Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇱ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | North West Arrow To Corner
|-
| U+219d || U+21b9 || U+21d5 || U+21f1
|-
|colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+219D.svg]] ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21B9.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21D5.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21F1.gif]]
|- class="Unicode"
|  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↞ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Leftwards Two Headed Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↺ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Anticlockwise Open Circle Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇖ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | North West Double Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇲ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | South East Arrow To Corner
|-
| U+219e || U+21ba || U+21d6 || U+21f2
|-
|colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+219E.svg]] ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21BA.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | File:U+21D6.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21F2.gif]]
|- class="Unicode"
|  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↟ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Upwards Two Headed Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↻ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Clockwise Open Circle Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇗ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | North East Double Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇳ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Up Down Thick Arrow
|-
| U+219f || U+21bb || U+21d7 || U+21f3
|-
|colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+219F.svg]] ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21BB.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21D7.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21F3.gif]]
|- class="Unicode"
|  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↠ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Rightwards Two Headed Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↼ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Leftwards Harpoon With Barb Upwards ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇘ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | South East Double Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇴ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Right Arrow With Small Circle
|-
| U+21a0 || U+21bc || U+21d8 || U+21f4
|-
|colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21A0.svg]] ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21BC.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21D8.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21F4.gif]]
|- class="Unicode"
|  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↡ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Downwards Two Headed Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↽ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Leftwards Harpoon With Barb Downwards ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇙ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | South West Double Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇵ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Downwards Arrow Leftwards Of Upwards Arrow
|-
| U+21a1 || U+21bd || U+21d9 || U+21f5
|-
|colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21A1.svg]] ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21BD.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21D9.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21F5.gif]]
|- class="Unicode"
|  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↢ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Leftwards Arrow With Tail ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↾ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Upwards Harpoon With Barb Rightwards ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇚ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Leftwards Triple Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇶ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Three Rightwards Arrows
|-
| U+21a2 || U+21be || U+21da || U+21f6
|-
|colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21A2.svg]] ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21BE.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21DA.gif ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21F6.gif]]
|- class="Unicode"
|  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↣ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Rightwards Arrow With Tail ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↿ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Upwards Harpoon With Barb Leftwards ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇛ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Rightwards Triple Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇷ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Leftwards Arrow With Vertical Stroke
|-
| U+21a3 || U+21bf || U+21db || U+21f7
|-
|colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21A3.svg]] ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21BF.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21DB.gif ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21F7.gif]]
|- class="Unicode"
|  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↤ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Leftwards Arrow From Bar ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇀ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Rightwards Harpoon With Barb Upwards ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇜ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Leftwards Squiggle Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇸ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Rightwards Arrow With Vertical Stroke
|-
| U+21a4 || U+21c0 || U+21dc || U+21f8
|-
|colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21A4.svg]] ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21C0.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21DC.gif ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21F8.gif]]
|- class="Unicode"
|  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↥ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Upwards Arrow From Bar ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇁ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Rightwards Harpoon With Barb Downwards ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇝ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Rightwards Squiggle Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇹ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Left Right Arrow With Vertical Stroke
|-
| U+21a5 || U+21c1 || U+21dd || U+21f9
|-
|colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21A5.svg]] ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21C1.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21DD.gif ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21F9.gif]]
|- class="Unicode"
|  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↦ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Rightwards Arrow From Bar ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇂ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Downwards Harpoon With Barb Rightwards ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇞ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Upwards Arrow With Double Stroke ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇺ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Leftwards Arrow With Double Vertical Stroke
|-
| U+21a6 || U+21c2 || U+21de || U+21fa
|-
|colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21A6.svg]] ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21C2.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21DE.gif ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21FA.gif]]
|- class="Unicode"
|  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↧ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Downwards Arrow From Bar ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇃ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Downwards Harpoon With Barb Leftwards ||  style="font-size: 200%;" |  ⇟ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Downwards Arrow With Double Stroke ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇻ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Rightwards Arrow With Double Vertical Stroke
|-
| U+21a7 || U+21c3 || U+21df || U+21fb
|-
|colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21A7.svg]] ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21C3.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21DF.gif ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21FB.gif]]
|- class="Unicode"
|  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↨ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Up Down Arrow With Base ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇄ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Rightwards Arrow Over Leftwards Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇠ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Leftwards Dashed Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇼ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Left Right Arrow With Double Vertical Stroke
|-
| U+21a8 || U+21c4 || U+21e0 || U+21fc
|-
|colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21A8.svg]] ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21C4.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21E0.gif ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21FC.gif]]
|- class="Unicode"
|  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↩ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Leftwards Arrow With Hook ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇅ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Upwards Arrow Leftwards Of Downwards Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇡ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Upwards Dashed Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇽ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Leftwards Open-Headed Arrow
|-
| U+21a9 || U+21c5 || U+21e1 || U+21fd
|-
|colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21A9.svg]] ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21C5.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21E1.gif ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21FD.gif]]
|- class="Unicode"
|  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↪ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Rightwards Arrow With Hook ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇆ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Leftwards Arrow Over Rightwards Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇢ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Rightwards Dashed Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇾ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Rightwards Open-Headed Arrow
|-
| U+21aa || U+21c6 || U+21e2 || U+21fe
|-
|colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21AA.svg]] ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21C6.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21E2.gif ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21FE.gif]]
|- class="Unicode"
|  style="font-size: 200%;" | ↫ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Leftwards Arrow With Loop ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇇ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Leftwards Paired Arrows ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇣ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Downwards Dashed Arrow ||  style="font-size: 200%;" | ⇿ || rowspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Left Right Open-Headed Arrow
|-
| U+21ab || U+21c7 || U+21e3 || U+21ff
|-
|colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21AB.svg]] ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21C7.svg ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | Image:U+21E3.gif ||colspan="2"  style="border-right: 3px solid; border-bottom: 3px solid; padding: 2px;" | [[Image:U+21FF.gif]]
|}

=== {{anchor|UnicodeBlocks}}By block ===
{{Unicode chart Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows}}
{{Unicode chart Supplemental Arrows-A}}
{{Unicode chart Supplemental Arrows-B}}

Additional arrows can be found in the [[Combining Diacritical Marks]], [[Combining Diacritical Marks Extended]], [[Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols]], [[Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (Unicode block)|Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms]], [[Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B]], [[Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs]], [[Miscellaneous Technical]], [[Modifier Tone Letters]] and [[Spacing Modifier Letters]] [[Unicode block]]s.

==See also==
* [[Dingbat]]
* [[Box Drawing|Box Drawing (Unicode Block)]]
* [[Block Elements|Block Elements (Unicode Block)]]
* [[Geometric Shapes|Geometric Shapes (Unicode Block)]]
* [[Box-drawing character]]

==References==
*J. R. Finkel,  [https://printinghistory.org/arrow/ "History of the Arrow"], ''Up Down Left Right'' (2011)
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.aaai.org/Papers/Symposia/Spring/2005/SS-05-06/SS05-06-020.pdf Semantics of Simple Arrow Diagrams] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201121024647/https://www.aaai.org/Papers/Symposia/Spring/2005/SS-05-06/SS05-06-020.pdf |date=2020-11-21 }}
* [https://emojipedia.org/search/?q=arrow Emojipedia]
* [https://www.copyandpastesymbol.com/arrow-symbols.html arrow symbol]

{{Common logical symbols}}

[[Category:Logic symbols]]
[[Category:Pictograms]]
[[Category:Unicode]]

{{Sourceattribution|Arrow (symbol)}}