Up-left arrow
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- Shortcode
:arrow_upper_left:- Shortcode
:up_left_arrow:- Unicode
U+2196- HTML
↖- CSS
\2196- JavaScript
"\u{2196}"- URL
%E2%86%96%EF%B8%8F
What ↖️ means
An arrow pointing up and to the left, or northwest. It means up and back.
Rare in chat. It points to something in the top-left corner of a screenshot or shows a northwest direction on a map. Sometimes it means going back up to an earlier step.
Facts
Up-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_upper_left: or :up_left_arrow:. People also look for it with words like “arrow”, “direction”, “intercardinal”, or “northwest”.
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.