What 🠐 means
It points left for direction or a way back.
In diagrams, it can mark a previous step. A 2011 Unicode proposal traced its design to c1left, a named position in the Wingdings 3 symbol font; Unicode encoding lets it travel as text without that font.
Its small equilateral head has three equal sides. A font without the glyph may show a box.
Don't confuse it with
2Questions people ask
1Why does 🠐 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type 🠐
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1F810, 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 small equilateral arrowhead”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1f810, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🠐CSS
\1F810How do I type 🠐?
In an app with Unicode hexadecimal input, enter 1F810; keystrokes vary. Legacy Wingdings 3 text using c1left may need conversion.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🠐
HTML hex
🠐
CSS content
content: "\1F810";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%A0%90
1
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.