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↑ U+2191, ↑
UPWARDS ARROW
← ←
 		Arrows → →
Character variations
￪ U+FFEA, ￪
HALFWIDTH UPWARDS ARROW
← ￩
 		Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms ￫ →
Text style Emoji style
⬆︎ ⬆️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
⬆ U+2B06, ⬆
UPWARDS BLACK ARROW
← ⬅
 		Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows ⬇ →

Translingual

Description

An arrow pointing up.

Symbol

↑

  1. Up, above.
    Antonym: ↓
  2. Northward.
  3. Indicating an increase or elevation.
    Antonym: ↓
  4. (phonetics)
    (a) (rare) egressive airstream mechanism when used with a letter for an ingressive sound, e.g.
    (b) exhalation when used alone, .
    Antonym: ↓
  5. (number theory, computer science) exponentiation
    Synonym: ^, **
  6. (number theory) Knuth arrow
  7. (go) an evaluation of a game position, up, in combinatorial-game-theory notation: {0|*}.[1][2]
    Antonym: ↓
  8. (computing) The up-arrow key on a computer keyboard, used for navigation and various keyboard commands.

Usage notes

  • (go): Arrows are iconically iterated: ⇑ ≡ ↑ + ↑; ⤊ ≡ ↑ + ↑ + ↑; ⟰ ≡ ↑ + ↑ + ↑ + ↑. The evaluations ⟨↑ ⇑ ⤊ ⟰⟩ are equivalent to ⟨↓ ⇓ ⤋ ⟱⟩ with the positions of black and white reversed.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Elwyn Berlekamp & David Wolfe (1994) Mathematical Go: Chilling Gets the Last Point, A. K. Peters Ltd, p. 18ff
  2. ^ Fraenkel, Aviezri S. (1978). "Review: On numbers and games, by J. H. Conway; and Surreal numbers, by D. E. Knuth" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (6): 1328–1336. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1978-14564-9, p. 1330.

Further reading

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ↑.

Symbol

↑

  1. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (Japan, slang) Used to denote an unusually high intonation.

Antonyms

Japanese

Symbol

↑

  1. (slang) Used to denote an unusually high intonation.

Antonyms

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