Upwards White Arrow
Part of Arrows
Upwards White Arrow has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ⇧
- Unicode
- U+21E7
About this symbol
⇧ is the shift key symbol. On a typewriter the shift key really did shift something: it raised or lowered the whole type mechanism so that each key struck its second, capital letter. The international standard for keyboard symbols, ISO/IEC 9995-7, uses this hollow arrow.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- UPWARDS WHITE ARROW
- Also called
- Shift, Level 2 select (ISO 9995-7)
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Arrows
- Unicode group
- White arrows and keyboard symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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