What ๐ means
Two arrows that chase each other clockwise. It means refresh, reload or repeat.
Tech chat uses it for reloading a page or syncing data. In everyday chat it means doing something again, or a cycle that keeps going. Compare ๐, which reads more like "repeat".
Facts
Clockwise vertical arrows ๐ is an emoji in the symbols category, under arrow. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :arrows_clockwise: or :clockwise_vertical_arrows:. People also look for it with words like โarrowโ, โarrowsโ, โclockwiseโ, or โrefreshโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
symbols ยท Unicode 6.0