Arrows (Unicode block)

Short description: Unicode block

Short description: Unicode character 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]
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Arrows is a Unicode block containing line, curve, and semicircle symbols terminating in barbs or arrows.

## Contents

* 1 Block
* 2 Emoji
* 3 History
* 4 See also
* 5 References

## Block

## 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+ | 2194 | 2195 | 2196 | 2197 | 2198 | 2199 | 21A9 | 21AA

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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:

Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document

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1.0.0 | U+2190..21EA | 91 |  |  | (to be determined)
L2/99-176R |  | Moore, Lisa (1999-11-04), Minutes from the joint UTC/L2 meeting in Seattle, June 8-10, 1999
L2/10-351 | N3897 |  Proposal to incorporate symbols of ISO/IEC 9995-7:2009 and Amendment 1 into the UCS, 2010-09-21
L2/10-448 |  | Constable, Peter (2010-10-30), UTC Liaison Report from WG2
L2/11-438[lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3] | N4182 | Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)
L2/12-302 | N4317 | Pentzlin, Karl (2012-10-08), Revised proposal to incorporate the symbols of ISO/IEC 9995-7:2009
3.0 | U+21EB..21F3 | 9 |  | N1138 | LaBonté, Alain (1995-01-30), Proposal to add new characters (Keyboard related) to 10646
| N1203 | Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1995-05-03), Unconfirmed minutes of SC2/WG2 Meeting 27, Geneva
| N1303 (html, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1996-01-26), Minutes of Meeting 29, Tokyo
L2/97-128 | N1564 | Paterson, Bruce (1997-05-15), Draft pDAM for various additional characters (the "holding bucket")
L2/97-167 | N1625 | Suignard, Michel (1997-07-03), Report of ad hoc group on keyboard symbols
| N1669 |  Position on PDAM-NN - Symbols - ref N1625, 1997-08-05
L2/97-288 | N1603 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June - 4 July 1997
L2/98-005R | N1682 |  Text of ISO 10646 - AMD 22 for PDAM registration and PDAM ballot, 1997-12-17
| N1830 (html, doc) |  Summary of Voting/Table of Replies - Amendment 22 - Symbols, 1998-04-15
| N1816R | Paterson, Bruce (1998-09-22), Disposition of comments on PDAM.22 (2nd draft)
L2/98-320 | N1898 |  ISO/IEC 10646-1/FPDAM 22, AMENDMENT 22: Keyboard Symbols, 1998-10-22
L2/99-010 | N1903 (pdf, html, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25
L2/99-126 |  | Paterson, Bruce (1999-04-14), Text for FDAM ballot ISO/IEC 10646 FDAM #22 - Keyboard symbols
L2/01-156 | N2356 | Freytag, Asmus (2001-04-03), Additional Mathematical Characters (Draft 10)
L2/01-344 | N2353 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-09-09), Minutes from SC2/WG2 meeting #40 -- Mountain View, April 2001
U+21F5..21FF | 11 | L2/00-119[lower-alpha 4] | N2191R | Whistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2000-04-19), Encoding Additional Mathematical Symbols in Unicode
L2/00-234 | N2203 (rtf, txt) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-07-21), Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24
L2/00-115R2 |  | Moore, Lisa (2000-08-08), Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83

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. ↑ Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B block for additional math-related documents

## See also

* Mathematical operators and symbols in Unicode
* Unicode input

## References

1. ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
2. ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
3. ↑ "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2023-09-05. https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/.
4. ↑ "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2023-02-01. https://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/emoji/emoji-data.txt.
5. ↑ "UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium. https://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt.

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