Wingdings Arrows
Wingdings has two arrow families: Wingdings 3, the all-arrow font, and a set of hidden arrows in Wingdings 1 on the accented keys. Both are below — click any arrow to copy it as Unicode.
Wingdings 3: The Arrow Font
Lowercase letters give single arrows, uppercase give paired and double-headed ones. This is the font Word users reach for when building process steps and diagrams.
Wingdings 1: The Hidden Accented Arrows
Classic Wingdings keeps its arrows on keys you rarely press: à (right), ß (left), â (down), ã/ä/å (diagonals), and the heavy é/è/ê set. Type them with ALT codes (0224, 0223, 0226…) after setting the font to Wingdings.
Using Wingdings Arrows in Documents
In Word or PowerPoint, arrows usually decorate lists ("Step 1 → Step 2") and flow diagrams. The font route: type the key, select it, set font to Wingdings 3 or Wingdings. The copy route: take any arrow above as Unicode — it survives Google Docs, email, chat and websites with zero font worries. For decoding arrow-heavy messages, remember they are almost always Wingdings 3.
Want arrows inside full secret messages? Convert sentences on the homepage translator, or explore the full alphabet chart.
A decoding tip for arrow puzzles: if a message mixes arrows with everyday objects like mailboxes or scissors, it is classic Wingdings 1, and the arrows sit on those accented keys. If it is wall-to-wall arrows with nothing else, it is Wingdings 3. And if you see arrows pointing in unusual styles — pinwheel heads, paired shafts, sans-serif stems — check the uppercase half of the Wingdings 3 chart above, because those decorative variants are exactly what the uppercase keys produce. Direction always matters when you reply: an up arrow can mean "yes, continue", a down arrow "no, stop", and diagonals often mark transitions between steps in instructions typed by hand.
Frequently Asked Questions
▸Which Wingdings keys are arrows?
In Wingdings 3, almost every key is an arrow — lowercase h, j, k, l give up/north-west/north/north-east arrows, and uppercase keys give paired and double-headed arrows. In Wingdings 1, the arrows hide on the accented keys: à is a right arrow, ß left, â down, é up (heavy), è right (heavy).
▸How do I type an arrow in Word?
Set the font to Wingdings 3 and press h (up), or use Wingdings with ALT+0224 (à) for a right arrow. Or skip the font entirely: copy any arrow from the chart above as Unicode and paste it anywhere.
▸Why do Wingdings arrows look different from → ?
Wingdings arrows were drawn as wide-headed barbed arrows for the 1992 desktop-publishing era, so their official Unicode matches (like U+1F86A) look bolder and more ornate than the plain mathematical →. Many phones can't draw those newer characters yet, so this site outputs the closest arrow every device supports — and decodes either version.