Reverse button

Your device cannot show this emoji yet. It still copies, and newer phones will show it.

Shortcode: :arrow_backward:
Shortcode: :reverse_button:
Unicode: U+25C0
HTML: ◀
CSS: \25C0
JavaScript: "\u{25C0}"
URL: %E2%97%80%EF%B8%8F

What ◀️ means

A left-pointing triangle, the mirror of ▶️. It stands for back, previous, or going left, more than for playing media in reverse.

It works as an arrow in lists, menus and directions, and as 'go back' in a step-by-step thread. Some people pair ◀️ and ▶️ to frame a word or to show a choice between two options.

Facts

Reverse button ◀️ is an emoji in the symbols category, under av symbol. 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_backward: or :reverse_button:. People also look for it with words like “arrow”, “button”, “left”, or “reverse”.