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↓ U+2193, ↓
DOWNWARDS ARROW
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Character variations
￬ U+FFEC, ￬
HALFWIDTH DOWNWARDS ARROW
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Text style Emoji style
⬇︎ ⬇️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
⬇ U+2B07, ⬇
DOWNWARDS BLACK ARROW
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Translingual

Description

An arrow pointing down.

Symbol

↓

  1. Down, below.
    Antonym: ↑
  2. Southward.
  3. Indicating a decrease or reduction.
    Antonym: ↑
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  4. (phonetics)
    (a) Ingressive airstream mechanism when used with a letter for a (pulmonic) egressive sound, e.g. , , or percussive, e.g. for lips smacking apart, or (rarely) implosives such as for .
    (b) Inhalation when used alone: [↓].
    Antonym: ↑
  5. (chemistry) precipitate, precipitation
  6. (go) an evaluation of a game position, down, defined as −↑ = {*|0}.[1][2]
    Antonym: ↑
  7. (computing) The down-arrow key on a computer keyboard, used for navigation and various keyboard commands.

Usage notes

(go): 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. ^ Dierk Schleicher & Michael Stoll (2005) An Introduction to Conway’s Games and Numbers, arXiv:math/0410026v2 (PDF), pp. 3, 7, 8, 25

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ↓.

Symbol

↓

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

Antonyms

Japanese

Symbol

↓

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

Antonyms

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