Category: Symbols

🔼upwards button

🔼 upwards button belongs to Symbols. Copy it instantly, review its aliases and codepoints, and explore related emojis from the same set.

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Meaning

Red upward-pointing button, often used to indicate 'up,' increase, or scroll-up.

Aliases

:arrow_up_small:

Keywords

arrowbuttonredupupwardsupwards button

What does 🔼 upwards button mean?

The 🔼 emoji depicts a red upward-pointing arrow inside a button, styled like an 'up' button on a remote or interface. It's commonly used to point upward, suggest increasing something (like volume or brightness), or tell someone to scroll up in a conversation. Depending on context, it can also signal navigating to the top or selecting the item above.

Often used for

Telling someone to scroll up in a chat
Indicating 'increase' for volume, brightness, etc.
Pointing to something above in a list or thread
Navigating up in a menu
Paired with 🔽 to show up/down options

Tone: Mostly neutral and functional, rarely carrying emotional weight. Meaning depends heavily on surrounding text, since a bare triangle can read as decorative without context.

🔼 in real messages

scroll 🔼 i dropped the link earlier
turn it 🔼 i can barely hear it
hit 🔼 twice to get back to the main menu
🔼 for yes 🔽 for no
go 🔼 then take a left at the corner
press 🔼 to select the option above

How 🔼 upwards button looks

Appearance varies by device and platform — your system font draws the native version below.

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🔼 upwards button codes for developers

Every format below produces 🔼 — click Copy on the one your stack needs.

Emoji	`🔼`
Unicode codepoints	`U+1F53C`
HTML (decimal)	`🔼`
HTML (hex)	`🔼`
CSS	`\1F53C`
JavaScript	`\u{1F53C}`
JSON	`\uD83D\uDD3C`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%94%BC`
Shortcode (GitHub)	`:arrow_up_small:`