Character variations
Text style
Emoji style
⬇︎
⬇️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
An arrow pointing down .
↓
Down , below .
Antonym: ↑
Southward .
Indicating a decrease or reduction .
Antonym: ↑
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( phonetics )
(a) Ingressive airstream mechanism when used with a letter for a (pulmonic ) egressive sound, e.g. [s↓], [a↓] , or percussive , e.g. [ʬ↓] for lips smacking apart, or (rarely) implosives such as [pʼ↓] for [ɓ̥] .
(b) Inhalation when used alone: [↓] .
Antonym: ↑
( chemistry ) precipitate , precipitation
( go ) an evaluation of a game position, down , defined as −↑ = {*|0}.[ 1] [ 2]
Antonym: ↑
( computing ) The down-arrow key on a computer keyboard, used for navigation and various keyboard commands.
( go ) : The evaluations ⟨↓ ⇓ ⤋ ⟱ ⟩ are equivalent to ⟨↑ ⇑ ⤊ ⟰ ⟩ with the positions of black and white reversed.[ 1]
↑ 1.0 1.1 Elwyn Berlekamp & David Wolfe (1994) Mathematical Go: Chilling Gets the Last Point , A. K. Peters Ltd, p. 18ff
^ Dierk Schleicher & Michael Stoll (2005) An Introduction to Conway’s Games and Numbers , arXiv:math/0410026v2 (PDF), pp. 3, 7, 8, 25
↓
( slang ) Used to denote an unusually low intonation .