An arrow that moves right and then turns upward. It means going up a level or turning a corner toward better.
Used for level-ups, improvements and directions that turn upward. It can also point up to an earlier message, like "see above", in a long thread.
Facts
Right arrow curving up ⤴️ 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 :arrow_heading_up: or :right_arrow_curving_up:. People also look for it with words like “arrow”, “curving”, “right”, or “up”.
Timeline
2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.