➡️

Right Arrow Emoji ➡️

A horizontal arrow pointing right, the plainest of the eight directional arrows. Carousel posts use it to signal swipe for more, next buttons and step-by-step threads lean on it for what comes after, and mid-sentence it points a reader toward whatever gets named right after it.

What ➡️ means

A short and thick white arrow facing the right in a blue boxed structure. The ➡️ Right Arrow emoji points towards the right direction or in other words, 'to the right'. It may also indicate the east/eastern location.

How and when to use it

If you're the quirky kind, you could use ➡️ while talking about the 'right' way, direction, path, course, etc., in a post caption, a social media story, a text message, anywhere.
Some brilliant examples for the previous use-case: "Anything that fills your heart with peace is definitely the ➡️ way to do things", "Nothing's left if you can't make things ➡️", or "Making the ➡️ decisions is not always easy. You've got to trust your gut sometimes".
From a navigational perspective, ➡️ would be helpful while pointing towards a specific direction; if you're sharing a clickable link, a CTA, etc, you could precede it with this emoji. For example, "Click here ➡️".
➡️ is a popular symbol of 'logging in' or 'signing in'. Hence, while asking your audience to first log into their account or your website, etc, you may use ➡️. Like, "Log onto our website to know more ➡️".

Other Names

➡️ Right Direction
➡️ East/Eastern
➡️ Login/Sign In
➡️ Arrow Pointing Right
➡️ Right Arrow
➡️ Right Pointing Arrow
➡️ Go Right

The lowdown

Category: Symbols › arrow
Codepoints: U+27A1 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :arrow_right: GitHub
Keywords: arrow, cardinal, direction, east, right

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.