Left-right arrow
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- Shortcode
:left_right_arrow:- Unicode
U+2194- HTML
↔- CSS
\2194- JavaScript
"\u{2194}"- URL
%E2%86%94%EF%B8%8F
What ↔️ means
A horizontal double-headed arrow. It means back and forth, width, or a two-way link between things.
It shows a swap, an exchange or two things that are equivalent: "London ↔️ Paris" for a trip there and back. It also marks width and side-to-side movement, or two people going back and forth.
Facts
Left-right 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). One other emoji uses it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :left_right_arrow:. People also look for it with words like “arrow” or “left-right”.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
- 2023New emoji built from it (Emoji 15.1)🙂↔️
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.