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can't find a unicode right arrow


There are these arrows in Unicode ⬅ ⬆ ⬇ ⬈ ⬉ ⬊ ⬋ ⬌ ⬍

But it's missing a right one. The name should be something like RIGHTWARDS BLACK ARROW, but there's no Unicode character of that name.

There are some char that seems similar, but i couldn't really find the right match. I'm looking for the right-pointing char of this set. (based on char name or semantic of the char, not font appearance)

Anyone? I need the Unicode code point.

Here's some of the char's code point

character: ⬅ (11013, #o25405, #x2b05)
character: ⬆ (11014, #o25406, #x2b06)
character: ⬍ (11021, #o25415, #x2b0d)

Solution

  • From the Unicode 7.0 Character Code Chart for Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows:

    White and black arrows Black arrow

    And from the Dingbats chart:

    Dingbat arrows

    This issue was discussed on the Unicode Mail List, and Jukka Korpela (author of Unicode Explained) mentioned:

    My guess is that U+27A1 was included along with other dingbat arrows (which are mostly rightward-pointing arrowlike symbols) because it had been included in legacy character codes. It was then regarded as unnecessary to duplicate it in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block.

    This is somewhat unfortunate.

    Here's the timeline of when these characters were added to Unicode:

    1991

    Unicode 1.0

    The Dingbats block (2700 to 27BF) has been present since Unicode 1.0. Its characters were copied from the ITC Zapf Dingbats font (released in 1978).

    2003

    Unicode 4.0

    The Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block was created in Unicode 4.0.

    2014

    The RIGHTWARDS BLACK ARROW character (2B95) was added in Unicode 7.0.