What 🠄 means
It points left; context supplies the destination. In a diagram or instruction, it marks “go left,” “back,” or movement toward an item.
Wingdings and Webdings are fonts that display symbols. A 2011 proposal to encode their designs as portable Unicode text listed this one as w-3157. A 1737 engineering diagram used arrows to show water flow; maps and logic later used them for routes and relationships such as showing one statement follows another.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 🠄 show as a box?
It can: as of 2026, font support varies; choose one that includes the glyph.
How to type 🠄
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1F804, then Alt+X to get 🠄.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “leftwards arrow with medium triangle arrowhead”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1f804, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🠄CSS
\1F804HTML entity
Write `🠄` in HTML.
CSS / JavaScript
CSS: `\1F804`; JavaScript: `\u{1F804}`.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🠄
HTML hex
🠄
CSS content
content: "\1F804";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%A0%84
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.