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Keyboard symbol · An arrow

⇧ Shift key symbol

Our drawing, not Apple’s or Microsoft’s artwork.

⇧ is the Shift key: hold it for capital letters and the upper character on a key, and add it to a shortcut to reverse or extend it (Shift-Command-Z redoes what Command-Z undid).

The symbol
⇧
Name on a Mac
Shift
Name on a Windows PC
Shift
Unicode
U+21E7 UPWARDS WHITE ARROW
In HTML
⇧
Where the key is
Both ends of the row with Z, the lowest row of letters.

What Apple says

  • Shift ⇧ Apple Support, Mac keyboard shortcuts, list of modifier-key symbols under Using keyboard shortcuts
  • Command-Z Undo the previous command. You can then press Shift-Command-Z to Redo, reversing the undo command. Apple Support, Mac keyboard shortcuts, Command-Z
  • Shift (⇧) Start up in safe mode. Apple Support, Mac startup key combinations, Key combinations for an Intel-based Mac

On a Windows PC

The character: U+21E7 UPWARDS WHITE ARROW

To type or paste it anywhere, copy this: ⇧. It is U+21E7 in Unicode, named UPWARDS WHITE ARROW, shown in the code chart Unicode Consortium, Code chart: Arrows, U+2190 to U+21FF, U+21E7

The Unicode names list annotates this character: shift and level 2 select (ISO/IEC 9995-7). Unicode Consortium, NamesList.txt, The Unicode Standard 18.0.0 (character names and annotations), U+21E7

In the ISO keyboard standard

The Unicode names list records that ISO/IEC 9995-7 uses the same hollow arrow for “level 2 select”, its name for Shift. Unicode Consortium, NamesList.txt, The Unicode Standard 18.0.0 (character names and annotations), block headers “Keyboard symbols from ISO/IEC 9995-7” and annotations

The standard itself: ISO/IEC (catalogue entry), ISO/IEC 9995-7:2009 Information technology — Keyboard layouts for text and office systems — Part 7: Symbols used to represent functions, catalogue entry

Other symbols of the same shape

⇪ Caps LockU+21EA⇥ TabU+21E5⏎ ReturnU+23CE⇞ Page UpU+21DE⇟ Page DownU+21DF⇱ HomeU+21F1⇲ EndU+21F2

More keyboard symbols

⌘ CommandU+2318⌥ OptionU+2325⌃ ControlU+2303⎋ EscapeU+238B⌫ Delete (Backspace)U+232B⌦ Forward DeleteU+2326⏏ EjectU+23CF🌐 Fn / GlobeU+1F310

Sources

Each line in quotation marks is copied from the page named, read on the date shown. Unicode names and code points are copied from the Unicode names list and code charts.