There are 225 different arrow or hand pointing symbols available in Word, PowerPoint or other Office apps. Left, Right, Up, Down, North, South, East, West. Here’s an easy searchable list of all 225 Unicode pointing symbols plus the arrow and point icons in modern Office
See also Check ☑︎, tick ✔️ and cross ❌ symbols galore
Point or Arrow Icons
Microsoft Office Icons also have arrow or point symbols – search for either term in Microsoft 365, Office 2021/2019 from Insert | Icons.
Arrow Icons have many options not available in the Unicode symbols, such as curved, turn back and chevrons. Keep in mind that, unlike characters, Icons can be rotated to point in any direction.
There is also an arrow shape in Office (Insert | Shape).
Arrow and Hands can and do look different
Unicode has many symbol and emoji, here’s all the arrow/hand symbols as they appear in Windows and Mac.
Here’s the same document on a Mac, as you can see, not all the symbols appear (which is surprising because usually macOS has broader symbol support than Windows).
Arrow / Hand searchable list
Here’s a searchable list of all the ‘pointing’ Unicode arrow and hand symbols we could find (225 at last count). We’ve defined pointing broadly, search for ‘middle
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- To get a symbol from this list …
- Copy (Ctrl + C) a symbol from the left column and paste into your document, sheet etc.
- Use the Unicode Hex value with the Alt + X trick in Word/Outlook.
- Use the Search box at right to find symbols by name or direction
Left, Right, Up, Down
North, South, East, West
Arrow, Hand
White, Black
Circle, Clockwise, Anticlockwise
- The official Unicode names are given, Office-Watch.com has added ‘Other Names’ to aid searches.
Symbol | Name | Unicode Hex (Alt + X in Word) | Other Names |
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← | Left arrow | 2190 | West |
↑ | Up arrow | 2191 | North |
→ | Rightward arrow | 2192 | East |
↓ | Down arrow | 2193 | South |
↔ | Left Right arrow | 2194 | Double |
↕ | Up Down Arrow | 2195 | Double |
↖ | North West Arrow | 2196 | Left, up |
↗ | North East Arrow | 2197 | Right, up |
↘ | South East Arrow | 2198 | Right, down |
↙ | South West Arrow | 2199 | Left, down |
↨ | Up Down Arrow with Base | 21A8 | Double |
↺ | Anticlockwise Open Circle Arrow | 21BA | |
↻ | Clockwise Open Circle Arrow | 21BB | |
☚ | Black Left Pointing Index | 261A | |
☛ | Black Right Pointing index | 261B | |
🫸 | Rightward Pushing Hand | 1FAF8 | High Five, holding, pressing |
🫷 | Leftward Pushing Hand | 1FAF7 | High Five, holding, pressing |
☜ | White Left Pointing Index | 261C | |
☝ | White Up Pointing Index | 261D | |
☞ | White Right Pointing Index | 261E | |
☟ | White Down Pointing Index | 261F | South |
⟲ | Anticlockwise Gapped Circle Arrow | 27F2 | |
⟳ | Clockwise Gapped Circle Arrow | 27F3 | |
⥀ | Anticlockwise Closed Circle Arrow | 2940 | |
⥁ | Clockwise Closed Circle Arrow | 2941 | |
⭮ | Clockwise Triangle -headed Open Circle Arrow | 2b6E | |
⭯ | AntiClockwise Triangle -headed Open Circle Arrow | 2B6F | |
👈 | White Left Pointing Backhand Index | 1F448 | East |
👉 | White Right Pointing Backhand Index | 1F449 | West |
👍 | Thumbs Up Sign | 1f44d | Hand, North |
👎 | Thumbs Down Sign | 1f44e | Hand, South |
🖕 | Reversed Hand with middle finger extended | 1F595 | Up |
🖗 | White Down Pointing Left Hand Index | 1F597 | |
🖘 | Sideways White Left Pointing Index | 1F598 | |
🖙 | Sideways White Right Pointing Index | 1F599 | Hand |
🖚 | Sideways Black Left Pointing Index | 1F59A | Hand |
🖛 | Sideways Black Right Pointing Index | 1F59B | Hand |
🖜 | Black Left Pointing Backhand Index | 1F59C | |
🖝 | Black Right Pointing Backhand Index | 1F59D | |
🖞 | Sideways White Up Pointing Index | 1F59E | Hand |
🖟 | Sideways White Down Pointing Index | 1F59F | |
👆 | Backhand Index Pointing Up | 1F446 | |
👇 | Backhand Index Pointing Down | 1F447 | |
🖠 | Sideways Black Up Pointing Index | 1F5A0 | Hand |
🖡 | Sideways Black Down Pointing Index | 1F5A1 | Hand |
🖢 | Black Up Pointing Backhand Index | 1F5A2 | |
🖣 | Black Down Pointing Backhand Index | 1F5A3 | |
🤛 | Left facing fist | 1F91B | Hand |
🤜 | Right facing fist | 1F91C | Hand |
🫱 | Rightwards Hand | 1FAF1 | |
🫲 | Sideways White Left Pointing Index | 1F598 | |
🫳 | Sideways White Right Pointing Index | 1F599 | |
🫴 | Sideways Black Left Pointing Index | 1F59A | |
🫵 | Sideways Black Right Pointing Index | 1F59B | Hand |
⮀ | Leftwards Triangle-Headed Arrow Over Rightwards Triangle-Headed Arrow | 2B80 | |
⮁ | Upwards Triangle-Headed Arrow Leftwards Of Downwards Triangle- | 2B81 | |
⮂ | Rightwards Triangle-Headed Arrow Over Leftwards Triangle-Headed Arrow | 2B82 | |
⮂ | Rightwards Triangle-Headed Arrow Over Leftwards Triangle-Headed Arrow | 2B82 | |
⮃ | Downwards Triangle-Headed Arrow Leftwards Of Upwards Triangle-Headed Arrow | 2B83 | |
⮄ | Leftwards Triangle-Headed Paired Arrows | 2B84 | |
⮅ | Upwards Triangle-Headed Paired Arrows | 2B85 | |
⮆ | Rightwards Triangle-Headed Paired Arrows | 2B86 | |
⮇ | Downwards Triangle-Headed Paired Arrows | 2B87 | |
⮈ | Leftwards Black Circled White Arrow | 2B88 | |
⮉ | Upwards Black Circled White Arrow | 2B89 | |
⮊ | Rightwards Black Circled White Arrow | 2B8A | |
⮋ | Downwards Black Circled White Arrow | 2B8B | |
⮌ | Anticlockwise Triangle-Headed Right U- | 2B8C | |
⮍ | Anticlockwise Triangle-Headed Bottom | 2B8D | |
⮎ | Anticlockwise Triangle-Headed Left U- | 2B8E | |
⮏ | Anticlockwise Triangle-Headed Top U- | 2B8F | |
⮐ | Return Left | 2B90 | |
⮑ | Return Right | 2B91 | |
⮒ | Newline Left | 2B92 | |
⮓ | Newline Right | 2B93 | |
⮔ | Four Corner Arrows Circling Anticlockwise | 2B94 | |
⮕ | Rightwards Black Arrow | 2B95 | |
⮘ | Three-D Top-Lighted Leftwards Equilateral Arrowhead | 2B98 | |
⮙ | Three-D Right-Lighted Upwards Equilateral Arrowhead | 2B99 | |
⮚ | Three-D Top-Lighted Rightwards Equilateral Arrowhead | 2B9A | |
⮛ | Three-D Left-Lighted Downwards Equilateral Arrowhead | 2B9B | |
⮜ | Black Leftwards Equilateral Arrowhead | 2B9C | |
⮝ | Black Upwards Equilateral Arrowhead | 2B9D | |
⮞ | Black Rightwards Equilateral Arrowhead | 2B9E | |
⮟ | Black Downwards Equilateral Arrowhead | 2B9F | |
⮠ | Downwards Triangle-Headed Arrow With Long Tip Leftwards | 2BA0 | |
⮡ | Downwards Triangle-Headed Arrow With Long Tip Rightwards | 2BA1 | |
⮢ | Upwards Triangle-Headed Arrow With Long Tip Leftwards | 2BA2 | |
⮣ | Upwards Triangle-Headed Arrow With Long Tip Rightwards | 2BA3 | |
⮤ | Leftwards Triangle-Headed Arrow With Long Tip Upwards | 2BA4 | |
⮥ | Rightwards Triangle-Headed Arrow With Long Tip Upwards | 2BA5 | |
⮦ | Leftwards Triangle-Headed Arrow With Long Tip Downwards | 2BA6 | |
⮧ | Rightwards Triangle-Headed Arrow With Long Tip Downwards | 2BA7 | |
⮨ | Black Curved Downwards And Leftwards Arrow | 2BA8 | |
⮩ | Black Curved Downwards And Lightwards Arrow | 2BA9 | |
⮪ | Black Curved Upwards And Leftwards Arrow | 2BAA | |
⮫ | Black Curved Upwards And Rightwards Arrow | 2BAB | |
⮬ | Black Curved Leftwards And Upwards Arrow | 2BAC | |
⮭ | Black Curved Rightwards And Upwards Arrow | 2BAD | |
⮮ | Black Curved Leftwards And Downwards Arrow | 2BAE | |
⮯ | Black Curved Rightwards And Downwards Arrow | 2BAF | |
⮰ | Ribbon Arrow Down Left | 2BB0 | |
⮱ | Ribbon Arrow Down Right | 2BB1 | |
⮲ | Ribbon Arrow Up Left | 2BB2 | |
⮳ | Ribbon Arrow Up Right | 2BB3 | |
⮴ | Ribbon Arrow Left Up | 2BB4 | |
⮵ | Ribbon Arrow Right Up | 2BB5 | |
⮶ | Ribbon Arrow Left Down | 2BB6 | |
⮷ | Ribbon Arrow Right Down | 2BB7 | |
⮸ | Upwards White Arrow From Bar With Horizontal Bar | 2BB8 | |
🖘 | Sideways White Left Pointing Index | 1F598 | |
🖙 | Sideways White Right Pointing Index | 1F599 | |
🖚 | Sideways Black Left Pointing Index | 1F59A | |
🖛 | Sideways Black Right Pointing Index | 1F59B | |
🖜 | Black Left Pointing Backhand Index | 1F59C | |
🖝 | Black Right Pointing Backhand Index | 1F59D | |
🖞 | Sideways White Up Pointing Index | 1F59E | |
🖟 | Sideways White Down Pointing Index | 1F59F | |
👆 | Backhand Index Pointing Up | 1F446 | |
👇 | Backhand Index Pointing Down | 1F447 | |
🖠 | Sideways Black Up Pointing Index | 1F5A0 | |
🖡 | Sideways Black Down Pointing Index | 1F5A1 | |
🖢 | Black Up Pointing Backhand Index | 1F5A2 | |
🖣 | Black Down Pointing Backhand Index | 1F5A3 | |
🤛 | Left facing fist | 1F91B | |
🤜 | Right facing fist | 1F91C | |
➔ | Heavy Wide-Headed Rightwards Arrow | 2794 | |
➘ | Heavy South East Arrow | 2798 | |
➙ | Heavy Rightwards Arrow | 2799 | |
➚ | Heavy North East Arrow | 279A | |
➛ | Drafting Point Rightwards Arrow | 279B | |
➜ | Heavy Round-Tipped Rightwards Arrow | 279C | |
➝ | Triangle-Headed Rightwards Arrow | 279D | |
➞ | Heavy Triangle-Headed Rightwards Arrow | 279E | |
➟ | Dashed Triangle-Headed Rightwards Arrow | 279F | |
➠ | Heavy Dashed Triangle-Headed Rightwards Arrow | 27A0 | |
➡ | Black Rightwards Arrow | 27A1 | |
➢ | Three-D Top-Lighted Rightwards Arrowhead | 27A2 | |
➣ | Three-D Bottom-Lighted Rightwards Arrowhead | 27A3 | |
➤ | Black Rightwards Arrowhead | 27A4 | |
➥ | Heavy Black Curved Downwards And Rightwards Arrow | 27A5 | |
➦ | Heavy Black Curved Upwards And Rightwards Arrow | 27A6 | |
➧ | Squat Black Rightwards Arrow | 27A7 | |
➨ | Heavy Concave-Pointed Black Rightwards Arrow | 27A8 | |
➩ | Right-Shaded White Rightwards Arrow | 27A9 | |
➪ | Left-Shaded White Rightwards Arrow | 27AA | |
➫ | Back-Tilted Shadowed White Rightwards Arrow | 27AB | |
➬ | Front-Tilted Shadowed White Rightwards Arrow | 27AC | |
➭ | Heavy Lower Right-Shadowed White Rightwards Arrow | 27AD | |
➮ | Heavy Upper Right-Shadowed White Rightwards Arrow | 27AE | |
➯ | Notched Lower Right-Shadowed White Rightwards Arrow | 27AF | |
➱ | Notched Upper Right-Shadowed White Rightwards Arrow | 27B1 | |
➲ | Circled Heavy White Rightwards Arrow | 27B2 | |
➳ | White-Feathered Rightwards Arrow | 27B3 | |
➴ | Black-Feathered South East Arrow | 27B4 | |
➵ | Black-Feathered Rightwards Arrow | 27B5 | |
➶ | Black-Feathered North East Arrow | 27B6 | |
➷ | Heavy Black-Feathered South East Arrow | 27B7 | |
➸ | Heavy Black-Feathered Rightwards Arrow | 27B8 | |
➹ | Heavy Black-Feathered North East Arrow | 27B9 | |
➺ | Teardrop-Barbed Rightwards Arrow | 27BA | |
➻ | Heavy Teardrop-Shanked Rightwards Arrow | 27BB | |
➼ | Wedge-Tailed Rightwards Arrow | 27BC | |
➽ | Heavy Wedge-Tailed Rightwards Arrow | 27BD | |
➾ | Open-Outlined Rightwards Arrow | 27BE | |
⬀ | North East White Arrow | 2B00 | |
⬁ | North West White Arrow | 2B01 | |
⬂ | South East White Arrow | 2B02 | |
⬃ | South West White Arrow | 2B03 | |
⬄ | Left Right White Arrow | 2B04 | |
⬅ | Leftwards Black Arrow | 2B05 | |
⬆ | Upwards Black Arrow | 2B06 | |
⬇ | Downwards Black Arrow | 2B07 | |
⬈ | North East Black Arrow | 2B08 | |
⬉ | North West Black Arrow | 2B09 | |
⬊ | South East Black Arrow | 2B0A | |
⬋ | South West Black Arrow | 2B0B | |
⬌ | Left Right Black Arrow | 2B0C | |
⬍ | Up Down Black Arrow | 2B0D | |
⬎ | Rightwards Arrow With Tip Downwards | 2B0E | |
⬏ | Rightwards Arrow With Tip Upwards | 2B0F | |
⬐ | Leftwards Arrow With Tip Downwards | 2B10 | |
⬑ | Leftwards Arrow With Tip Upwards | 2B11 | |
🙐 | North West Pointing Leaf | 1F650 | |
🙑 | South West Pointing Leaf | 1F651 | |
🙒 | North East Pointing Leaf | 1F652 | |
🙓 | South East Pointing Leaf | 1F653 | |
🙔 | Turned North West Pointing Leaf | 1F654 | |
🙕 | Turned South West Pointing Leaf | 1F655 | |
🙖 | Turned North East Pointing Leaf | 1F656 | |
🙗 | Turned South East Pointing Leaf | 1F657 | |
🙘 | North West Pointing Vine Leaf | 1F658 | |
🙙 | South West Pointing Vine Leaf | 1F659 | |
🙚 | North East Pointing Vine Leaf | 1F65A | |
🙛 | South East Pointing Vine Leaf | 1F65B | |
🙜 | Heavy North West Pointing Vine Leaf | 1F65C | |
🙝 | Heavy South West Pointing Vine Leaf | 1F65D | |
🙞 | Heavy North East Pointing Vine Leaf | 1F65E | |
🙟 | Heavy South East Pointing Vine Leaf | 1F65F | |
🙠 | North West Pointing Bud | 1F660 | |
🙡 | South West Pointing Bud | 1F661 | |
🙢 | North East Pointing Bud | 1F662 | |
🙣 | South East Pointing Bud | 1F663 | |
🙤 | Heavy North West Pointing Bud | 1F664 | |
🙥 | Heavy South West Pointing Bud | 1F665 | |
🙦 | Heavy North East Pointing Bud | 1F666 | |
🙧 | Heavy South East Pointing Bud | 1F667 | |
🙬 | Leftwards Rocket | 1F66C | |
🙭 | Upwards Rocket | 1F66D | |
🙮 | Rightwards Rocket | 1F66E | |
🙯 | Downwards Rocket | 1F66F | |
⨠ | Z Notation Schema Piping | 2A20 | Right |
˂ | Modifier Letter Left Arrowhead | 02C2 | |
˃ | Modifier Letter Right Arrowhead | 02C3 | |
˄ | Modifier Letter Up Arrowhead | 02C4 | |
˅ | Modifier Letter Down Arrowhead | 02C5 | |
˯ | Modifier Letter Low Down Arrowhead | 02EF | |
˰ | Modifier Letter Low Up Arrowhead | 02F0 | |
˱ | Modifier Letter Low Left Arrowhead | 02F1 | |
˲ | Modifier Letter Low Right Arrowhead | 02F2 | |
↜ | Leftwards Wave Arrow | 219C | |
↝ | Rightwards Wave Arrow | 219D | |
↭ | Left Right Wave Arrow | 21AD | |
⤳ | Wave Arrow Pointing Directly Right | 2933 | |
⬿ | Wave Arrow Pointing Directly Left | 2B3F |
Notes
The Symbols in the left column may not appear correctly or at all – it depends on your computer, browser and installed fonts. That said, all symbols should show in modern Windows or Mac with a modern browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox).
Each symbol/emoji can and will look different, in particular Windows vs Mac because there are very different fonts used on each operating system.
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