The SOON arrow is the Internet’s official “not yet, but any minute now” badge. It’s perfect for teasing a drop, hinting at an update, or buying time when your project is marinating in ‘almost there’ energy—also known as soon™. People use it to hype releases, announce rollouts, or joke about delays with a wink, especially when paired with countdowns, eyes emoji, or a dramatic ellipsis.
On Apple devices, it appears as a crisp blue rounded square with a soft gradient, the word SOON in bold white all-caps, and a thin rightward arrow perched above the text—very much like an old-school UI button you’d tap in an app. Culturally, it echoes the classic “SOON.” meme (ominous cat staring from the dark, anyone?) and traces back to Japanese carrier emoji sets that looked like interface labels. In chats, it swings from earnest (“New pics soon!”) to playful procrastination (“I’ll start my diet… SOON arrow”), to theatrical menace (“I’m coming for your high score… SOON”). It’s the universal promise pin: reassurance for the patient, comedic fuel for the chronically delayed.
Definition
An arrow pointing to the right with the word "soon" below it. Means something is going to happen in short order. Not much time before something happens. Relatively soon. Generally people that use this emoji ignore the arrow on top and use it strictly for the text "soon".
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
746 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:soon:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Soon with Rightwards Arrow Above SOON Arrow
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Words with Arrows
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Abstract Concepts
Unicode Subcategory
Words with Arrows
Names & Annotations
SOON WITH RIGHTWARDS ARROW ABOVE Old name: SOON WITH RIGHT ARROW ABOVE Temporary Notes: soon
Symbol Information
U+1F51C proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-018
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#173 'Soon' soon U+E6B7 SJIS-F95B JIS-7E2D
KDDI
[SOON]
Softbank
[SOON]
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🔜
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🔜
Decimal HTML Entity
🔜
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🔜
Hex Code Point(s)
1f51c
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F51C
Decimal Code Point(s)
128284
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x94 0x9C
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 94 9C
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 224 234
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDD1C
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddd1c
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56604
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F51C
UTF-32 Hex
01F51C
UTF-32 Dec
128284
Python Src
u"\U0001F51C"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x94\x9c"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDD1C"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
