Why is arrow support so much better than other symbols?

Age. The Arrows block was encoded for technical documents more than a decade before emoji existed, so fonts have had far longer to cover it. Arrows are among the safest non-Latin characters you can paste anywhere.

Which arrow should I use for a link?

The rightwards arrow or the heavy rightwards arrow. Both are old, universally covered, and read clearly at small sizes where the curved and hooked variants blur.

Arrow symbols, copy and paste

Tap any symbol to copy it. 60 characters, each one verified against the Unicode database.

Ready-made combos

Tap to copy the whole arrangement. These are the framed forms people use in bios, built from characters that are checked the same way the grid above is.

Dividers and borders

Box-drawing characters join without gaps when repeated, which is what makes these read as one rule rather than a row of dashes. Each character counts against your limit, so a long divider is an expensive piece of decoration.

In a bio

Three lines you can adapt. Replace the words and keep the spacing.

The Arrows block predates emoji by more than a decade and was encoded for technical documents, which is why coverage is excellent almost everywhere. Directional arrows, double arrows, curved and hooked forms are all here, and they render as text rather than images.

Why arrows are the safest set here

The Arrows block was added in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, for mathematics and technical documentation. Thirty years of font coverage means these render almost everywhere, including on the older Android handsets where decorative blocks fail.

If you want one symbol that will not surprise you, take it from this set.

Which to use for what

The rightwards arrow at U+2192 is the plain workhorse and the one to reach for when pointing at a link. The heavy rightwards arrow at U+27A1 is bolder and better at small sizes, though it renders as an emoji on some systems.

Curved and hooked arrows carry meaning in technical writing that they lose in a bio, and at small sizes they blur into an indistinct squiggle. Straight arrows survive the phone screen; ornamental ones do not.

A caution about direction

Arrows are read in the direction of the text around them. In a right-to-left language a rightwards arrow can read as pointing backwards, which is worth knowing if your audience is not exclusively English-speaking.