Top Arrow Emoji
The word TOP with an upward arrow, used for scrolling up and for praise.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Top Arrow emoji mean?
The word TOP with an upward arrow, used for scrolling up and for praise.
Doubles as navigation and praise. The literal reading is scroll upward; the popular one is that something is the best, and the two rarely appear in the same sentence.
How to use 🔝 naturally
Back-to-top links, and calling someone or something the best.
Reaction symbols work like visual emphasis: they reinforce a word, rate an idea or replace a short response. Repetition normally increases intensity, but it can also make a message feel more performative.
From standard to slang
The history of 🔝
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Top Arrow was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
The word TOP above an upward arrow, from the same English-language button set. Its use as praise is entirely separate from its interface meaning.
- Today
How its use evolved
Back-to-top links, and calling someone or something the best.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🔝 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Best album they have made 🔝
Jump 🔝 for the summary
That performance was 🔝
When to use it
Using 🔝 clearly
Back-to-top links, and calling someone or something the best. It lands as top arrow emoji or 🔝 meaning when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the top arrow emoji
What does 🔝 mean in a text message?
The word TOP with an upward arrow, used for scrolling up and for praise. Doubles as navigation and praise. The literal reading is scroll upward; the popular one is that something is the best, and the two rarely appear in the same sentence.
Is 🔝 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are top arrow emoji, 🔝 meaning, top emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🔝 look different on another device?
U+1F51D identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the top arrow emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🔝 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the top arrow emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🔝 as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
Easily confused
🔝 compared with similar emoji
These sit close enough in meaning that people reach for the wrong one. Here is what actually separates them.
Top Arrow or Hundred Points?
💯 rates something as perfect. 🔝 ranks it above everything else, so one is a score and the other is a position.
Top Arrow or Back Arrow?
Both are English-language buttons from the same set. 🔝 has escaped into praise; 🔙 never did.
For developers
🔝 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F51D | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🔝 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🔝 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F51D | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F51D} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%94%9D | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F51D
- Category
- Symbols & Reactions
- Also known as
- top arrow emoji🔝 meaningtop emoji
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