Up-down arrow

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Shortcode
:arrow_up_down:
Shortcode
:up_down_arrow:
Unicode
U+2195
HTML
↕
CSS
\2195
JavaScript
"\u{2195}"
URL
%E2%86%95%EF%B8%8F

arrowup-down

What ↕️ means

A vertical double-headed arrow. It means up and down, height, or scrolling.

Used for vertical size, sorting order and scrolling directions, often in tech and design notes. Figuratively it means ups and downs, like a mood or market that keeps swinging.

Facts

Up-down arrow ↕️ 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). One other emoji uses it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :arrow_up_down: or :up_down_arrow:. People also look for it with words like “arrow” or “up-down”.

Timeline

  1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
  2. 2023New emoji built from it (Emoji 15.1)🙂‍↕️

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. up-down arrow, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. up-down arrow, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. up-down arrow, Google (Noto) design from 20212021

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. up-down arrow, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

symbols · Unicode 6.0