Downwards Arrow
Part of Arrows
On Windows, hold Alt and type 25 on the numeric keypad to insert downwards arrow.
- Alt code
- Alt+25
- HTML entity
- ↓
- Unicode
- U+2193
About this symbol
In logic, ↓ stands for NOR, “neither this nor that”. Willard Van Orman Quine used it this way in 1940. It is also called the Peirce arrow, after Charles Sanders Peirce, who worked out that every other logical operation can be built from NOR alone, though he never published it.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- DOWNWARDS ARROW
- Type
- Maths symbol
- Unicode block
- Arrows
- Unicode group
- Simple arrows
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- IPA: ingressive airflow
- Related
- Leftwards Arrow From Downwards Arrow U+1F8C0
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