Downwards Zigzag Arrow

Group: Arrows

Keywords

arrows

About this character

Downwards Zigzag Arrow belongs to the Arrows group and is encoded at U+21AF. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+21AF
Hex: 21AF
Decimal: 8623
HTML: ↯
CSS: \21AF
JavaScript: \u21AF
Python: \u21AF
UTF-8: E2 86 AF

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Leftwards Arrow U+2190 Similar
Upwards Arrow U+2191 Similar
Rightwards Arrow U+2192 Similar
Downwards Arrow U+2193 Similar
Left Right Arrow U+2194 Similar
Up Down Arrow U+2195 Similar
North West Arrow U+2196 Similar
North East Arrow U+2197 Similar
South East Arrow U+2198 Similar
South West Arrow U+2199 Similar
Leftwards Arrow With Stroke U+219A Similar
Rightwards Arrow With Stroke U+219B Similar
Leftwards Wave Arrow U+219C Similar
Rightwards Wave Arrow U+219D Similar
Leftwards Two Headed Arrow U+219E Similar
Upwards Two Headed Arrow U+219F Similar
Rightwards Two Headed Arrow U+21A0 Similar
Downwards Two Headed Arrow U+21A1 Similar
Leftwards Arrow With Tail U+21A2 Similar
Rightwards Arrow With Tail U+21A3 Similar
Leftwards Arrow From Bar U+21A4 Similar
Upwards Arrow From Bar U+21A5 Similar
Rightwards Arrow From Bar U+21A6 Similar
Downwards Arrow From Bar U+21A7 Similar

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.