Up-down arrow Emoji

Symbols

A vertical arrow pointing both up and down, featuring sharp heads on either end of a straight line. It is a clear visual shorthand for vertical movement or bidirectional range.

Usage Context

Used to denote height, depth, or the act of scrolling through a digital document. It is frequently employed in interface design to represent adjustable settings, such as volume or screen brightness, and pairs well with ↔ to indicate two-dimensional movement.

History

Adopted into the Unicode standard in 1993, this glyph stems from early computer typography and technical drawing symbols used to manage window navigation before touch-screen interfaces became the norm.

Details

Glyph

↕

Unicode

U+2195

Shortcode

:emoji_u2195:

HTML Entity

↕

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Symbols

Subcategory arrow

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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