Rightwards Arrow
Part of Arrows
On Windows, hold Alt and type 26 on the numeric keypad to insert rightwards arrow.
- Alt code
- Alt+26
- HTML entity
- →
- Unicode
- U+2192
About this symbol
Arrows pointing the way are surprisingly recent in print. One early example is in a treatise on hydraulics by the French engineer Bernard Forest de Bélidor, published in 1737.
Mathematics found other jobs for it. G. H. Hardy wrote the arrow under “lim” for limits in A Course of Pure Mathematics in 1908, and David Hilbert used → for “implies” in logic in 1922. On Windows the four arrows sit at the very start of the old DOS character set, so → is simply Alt+26.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- RIGHTWARDS ARROW
- Also called
- Z notation total function
- Type
- Maths symbol
- Unicode block
- Arrows
- Unicode group
- Simple arrows
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Arrows chart for related characters.