Arrows is a Unicode block containing line, curve, and semicircle symbols terminating in barbs or arrows.
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 theeight emoji, all of which default to a text presentation.[5]
| U+ | 2194 | 2195 | 2196 | 2197 | 2198 | 2199 | 21A9 | 21AA | |
| base code point | ↔ | ↕ | ↖ | ↗ | ↘ | ↙ | ↩ | ↪ | |
| base+VS15 (text) | |||||||||
| base+VS16 (emoji) |
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Arrows block:
| Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | U+2190..21EA | 91 | (to be determined) | |||
| N3897 | ||||||
| N4182 | ||||||
| N4317 | ||||||
| 3.0 | U+21EB..21F3 | 9 | N1138 | |||
| N1203 | ||||||
| doc) | ||||||
| N1564 | ||||||
| N1625 | ||||||
| N1669 | ||||||
| N1603 | ||||||
| N1682 | ||||||
| doc) | ||||||
| N1816R | ||||||
| N1898 | ||||||
| N1897 | ||||||
| html, doc) | ||||||
| 3.2 | U+21F4 | 1 | N2336 | |||
| N2356 | ||||||
| doc) | ||||||
| U+21F5..21FF | 11 | N2191R | ||||
| txt) | ||||||