What rising arrows mean
A rising arrow points up and to the right, the direction a line takes on a chart when something grows. The plain one, ↗︎, is officially called north east arrow (U+2197), and it has heavier relatives like ⬈ and ➚, a double version ⇗ and the wide-headed 🡵. People use them for growth, progress, higher prices, "level up" moments and anything trending.
The emoji 📈 (chart with upwards trend) is the most recognizable rising symbol and is everywhere in posts about stocks, crypto, followers and personal goals. 💹 adds a yen sign and is used for markets and exchange rates. Their opposites are ↘︎ (south east arrow) and 📉 (chart with downwards trend).
Showing gains and losses in text
Plain text cannot be colored, so finance tables and tickers often use triangles instead: ▲ before a gain and ▼ before a loss, like ▲ 2.4% or ▼ 1.3%. If you want color in a chat or social post, the red emoji triangles 🔺 and 🔻 keep their color on every platform.
Colors do not mean the same thing everywhere. In the United States and Europe, green usually means up and red means down, but in mainland China it is the other way around: red means a price went up. Arrows and triangles avoid that confusion because the direction speaks for itself. For more triangles, see the triangle symbol page.
How to type a rising arrow
In Microsoft Word, type 2197 and press Alt + X for ↗︎, or 2198 for ↘︎. In HTML, use ↗ and ↘, and in LaTeX use \nearrow and \searrow. On a Mac, open the Character Viewer with Control + Command + Space and search "north east". On phones, search "chart" in the emoji keyboard to find 📈 and 📉.
For straight up arrows, visit the up arrow symbol page, and for every other direction, the full list of arrow symbols.