U+2197 "↗" North East Arrow Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2197 "↗" North East Arrow is a typographic symbol classified under the Arrows block, representing a diagonal direction pointing upward and to the right. In digital and text-based contexts, it is commonly used to indicate an increase, growth, or forward progress, often appearing in financial charts, user interfaces, or mathematical notations to denote a vector or ascending trend. Its simple and clear design makes it a universal visual cue for movement toward the northeast corner of a plane, and it can be combined with other arrow characters to form more complex directional indicators or diagrams.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2197 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | North East Arrow |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Upper Right Arrow |
| Block | Arrows |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ↗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ↗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x86 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2197 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002197 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2197 |