Would you like the ability to include some lightning bolts in your txts? Could your tweets use some extra magnificent flash? I would love to have a lightning bolt character. And you know what? Unicode has a lightning bolt! Here it is:
That’s no lightning bolt! That’s a confused arrow! What is unicode trying to pull over on us?
(A big thanks to Vera for discovering this. She was the genius who wanted to find a lightning bolt character. And she is the genius for finding it, but discovering that it’s a lost arrow. Thank you Vera-the-Genius!)
I updated this post with thanks to Vera. (A big thanks to Vera for discovering this. She was the genius who wanted to find a lightning bolt character. And she is the genius for finding it, but discovering that it’s a lost arrow. Thank you Vera-the-Genius!)
Spudart! This poor arrow has been forced to impersonate a lightning bolt! That’s not right! Thank YOU for using your powerful blog to shed a light on this sad charade. You get: ★+★=刐 (and by the way! you are the genius who came up with: ★+★=刐) 刐 x 刐 x ★+★ x 刐 for spudart!
HAHA. The arrow is impersonating a lightning bolt. But it’s being forced to do so. Poor arrow. It just wants to be straight and point at things. And now it has to compromise and be all ziggy. Can you imagine that meeting, “Arrow, you will have to get ziggy wid it”
More appropriate for most use is the high voltage sign U+26A1 (for which the alternate names include “thunder” and “lightning symbol”). ⚡
Hey! Now that’s a better looking lightning bolt! ⚡ 🙂
I was curious about the confused arrow U+2607. It turns out to be #13 in a series of 100 meteorological symbols for displaying present weather conditions at a station, meaning “lightning visible, no thunder heard”. Complete chart (US National Weather Service) at http://www.srh.weather.gov/srh/jetstream/synoptic/sfc_plot_symbols.htm excruciating detail (UK Met Office) at http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/library/factsheets/factsheet11.pdf and background info on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_model