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U+2191, ↑
UPWARDS ARROW

[U+2190]
Arrows
[U+2192]
U+FFEA, ↑
HALFWIDTH UPWARDS ARROW

[U+FFE9]
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
[U+FFEB]

U+2B06, ⬆
UPWARDS BLACK ARROW

[U+2B05]
Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows
[U+2B07]

U+21D1, ⇑
UPWARDS DOUBLE ARROW

[U+21D0]
Arrows
[U+21D2]
U+290A, ⤊
UPWARDS TRIPLE ARROW

[U+2909]
Supplemental Arrows-B
[U+290B]

U+27F0, ⟰
UPWARDS QUADRUPLE ARROW

[U+27EF]
Supplemental Arrows-A
[U+27F1]

Translingual[edit]

Description[edit]

An arrow pointing up.

Symbol[edit]

  1. up, above
  2. northward
  3. (phonetics, text style only) |
    (a) (rare) egressive airstream mechanism when used with a letter for an ingressive sound, e.g. [ʘ↑]
    (b) exhalation when used alone, [↑].
    Antonym:
  4. (number theory, computer science) exponentiation
    Synonym: ^, **
  5. (number theory) Knuth arrow
  6. (go) an evaluation of a game position, up, in combinatorial-game-theory notation: {0|*}.[1][2]
    Antonym:

Usage notes[edit]

  • (go): Arrows are iconically iterated: ⇑ ≡ ↑ + ↑; ⤊ ≡ ↑ + ↑ + ↑; ⟰ ≡ ↑ + ↑ + ↑ + ↑. The evaluations ⟨↑ ⇑ ⤊ ⟰⟩ are equivalent to ↓ ⇓ ⤋ ⟱ with the positions of black and white reversed.[1]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Elwyn Berlekamp & David Wolfe (1994) Mathematical Go: Chilling Gets the Last Point, A. K. Peters Ltd, p. 18ff
  2. ^ Fraenkel, Aviezri S. (1978). "Review: On numbers and games, by J. H. Conway; and Surreal numbers, by D. E. Knuth" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (6): 1328–1336. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1978-14564-9, p. 1330.

Further reading[edit]

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Japanese .

Symbol[edit]

  1. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (Japan, slang) Used to denote an unusually high intonation.

Antonyms[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Symbol[edit]

  1. (slang) Used to denote an unusually high intonation.

Antonyms[edit]