Left arrow curving right

An arrow that heads left and then curves to the right. It means forward, redirect or redo.

People use it to mark a forwarded message, a detour, or a follow-up note. It points from one item to the next in a thread.

Facts

Left arrow curving right ↪️ is an emoji in the symbols category, under arrow. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :arrow_right_hook: or :left_arrow_curving_right:. People also look for it with words like “arrow”, “curving”, “left”, or “right”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

symbols · Unicode 6.0