Rightwards Arrow

The Rightwards Arrow at U+2192 is a visible arrow symbol pointing to the right, used to show direction, progression, result, or mapping. It belongs to the Arrows block, a Unicode block containing directional and logical arrow signs rather than alphabetic characters. In everyday writing and interface text, it often marks movement from one item to another: “Settings → Privacy → Location” describes a path through menus, while “old address → new address” shows a change. Writers also use it as a compact substitute for “leads to,” “becomes,” or “goes to” in notes, diagrams, timelines, and slide decks. In mathematics, logic, and computer science, → is a standard notation mark with precise meanings. It can denote a function or mapping, as in f: A → B, implication in logic, as in P → Q, or a transition in automata and rewriting systems. In chemistry and physics, it commonly separates reactants from products in reaction equations and can indicate a directed process or transformation. Because it is a true arrow character rather than a hyphen-and-greater-than pair, it is visually cleaner in prose and formulas, but plain-text search may not match it when someone types an ASCII approximation like ->. Its close relatives include longer arrows and arrows with different directions, so the exact symbol matters in technical notation.