Right arrow curving left

An arrow that heads right and then curves back to the left. It means return, reply, or undo.

Used for "reply" in threads, "go back" in instructions, and return policies. It works as a text-only back button. Some people use it for a U-turn or a change of mind.

Facts

Right arrow curving left ↩️ 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 :leftwards_arrow_with_hook: or :right_arrow_curving_left:. 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