Upwards White Arrow

The Upwards White Arrow at U+21E7 is a hollow upward-pointing arrow symbol used to indicate upward direction, raising, or a keyboard Shift key. It sits in the Arrows block, which contains many directional and functional arrow signs rather than alphabetic letters. Its most familiar modern use is in keyboard notation, especially on Apple keyboards and in shortcut documentation, where ⇧ represents Shift. For example, ⇧⌘P means pressing Shift with Command and P, and ⇧Tab denotes reverse tab navigation in many applications. Outside keyboard shortcuts, it appears in interface text, diagrams, and plain-text labels to mean “up,” “move up,” “increase,” or “upload,” when a hollow arrow style is preferred over a solid arrow. It may also be used in educational material or technical notes to distinguish an upward action from related arrow symbols such as ↑, though the plain upwards arrow is more common in mathematical notation.