U+1F500 Twisted Rightwards Arrows

U+1F500 was added in Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. It belongs to the block U+1F300 to U+1F5FF Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs in the U+10000 to U+1FFFF Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as shuffle.

The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+1F500 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.

The CLDR project calls this character “shuffle tracks button” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: arrow, crossed.

This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Variation Selector-15: 🔀︎ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.