Left arrow
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- Shortcode
:arrow_left:- Shortcode
:left_arrow:- Unicode
U+2B05- HTML
⬅- CSS
\2B05- JavaScript
"\u{2B05}"- URL
%E2%AC%85%EF%B8%8F
What ⬅️ means
An arrow pointing left. It means back, previous, or "look at this" for something to its left.
"Me ⬅️" tags oneself in a photo or list. It can mean going back a step or west on a map. In menus it is the back button.
Facts
Left arrow ⬅️ 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_left: or :left_arrow:. People also look for it with words like “arrow”, “cardinal”, “direction”, or “left”.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.