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↕️ Up-down arrow
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↕️ Emoji meaning
Scroll, switch, sort, compare, and reverse.
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↕️ Meaning
The arrow points in two opposite directions, up and down. As a symbol, indicates the height. Movement upwards stands for growth and life, movement downwards for descent and change.
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Commonly confused with
Direction Variant
Up down arrow vs upwards arrow; both indicate vertical motion, one bi-directional, one single.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Up-down arrow” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
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+ up-down
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- up-down arrow
In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
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+ up-down arrow
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
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+ arrow
