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Last reviewed on August 3, 2026
The Return Arrow symbol (↩) is one of the arrows characters in the AllSymbols catalog. It belongs to the Unicode Arrows block (U+2190–U+21FF), which holds most of the cardinal and diagonal arrow characters used in everyday writing, math, and diagram captions. Arrows in this block render at body weight and inherit your text color, so they fit naturally inline.
Arrows are most useful where they save you a phrase. Instead of writing “goes to” you can write the symbol; instead of “therefore” or “implies” in math you can write the appropriate arrow. In flowcharts and diagrams, the four cardinal arrows pair with simple geometric shapes to indicate direction without needing graphics.
In Unicode, Return Arrow sits at code point U+21A9. Web pages reference it with the HTML numeric entity ↩; CSS rules reference it as a quoted hex escape (the four-digit code prefixed with a backslash); in JavaScript and most modern source-code contexts you can either paste the literal character or use a Unicode escape with the same hex digits.
If an arrow renders as a tofu box, your device does not have a font that covers the code point. The plain cardinal arrows (left, right, up, down) are universally supported; some of the heavier or compound arrows are newer additions and may not render in older browsers or older system fonts.
If Return Arrow isn’t quite what you need, the Arrows page lists every related character on the site — including Right Arrow and Double Down Arrow. The related-symbols grid below also surfaces the closest sibling characters.
Type 21A9 then press Alt+X in Word; in other apps, copy ↩ from this page and paste it. You can also copy ↩ straight from this page — it pastes into any app.
Press Ctrl+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for the symbol by name.
The return arrow symbol is Unicode code point U+21A9. In HTML, use ↩ or the numeric reference ↩.