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leftwards finger-post arrow

Leftwards Finger-Post Arrow

🠴 points left to mark direction or flow. A Wingdings 3 chart has a matching sign-like design. It is a text symbol, not an emoji, and fonts can alter its shape or hide it.

Text symbol
Search it as
left arrow · Wingdings 3 · i8left · text arrow
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 🠴 means

It directs the reader toward the left.

A Wingdings 3 chart labels a matching left-pointing design i8left. Microsoft Wingdings fonts appeared with Windows 3.1 in 1992. A 2011 Unicode proposal sought stable text encoding for symbols once accessed through custom font codes or menus. i8left is a chart slot label, not a Unicode input code.

A 2023 genetics paper uses sign-like arrows to mark which way genes are transcribed (their instructions are copied into RNA, a molecule that carries them). 🠴 can disappear if the selected font lacks its glyph; fonts with it may draw it differently.

Don't confuse it with

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🠵
Upwards Finger-Post Arrow
shares “arrow”, “finger”, “post”
🠶
Rightwards Finger-Post Arrow
shares “arrow”, “finger”, “post”
🠷
Downwards Finger-Post Arrow
shares “arrow”, “finger”, “post”
🠀
Leftwards Arrow With Small Triangle Arrowhead
shares “arrow”, “leftwards”

Questions people ask

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Why 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 1F834, 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 finger-post arrow”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1f834, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🠴
CSS
\1F834
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🠴
HTML hex
🠴
CSS content
content: "\1F834";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%A0%B4
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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.

Families this belongs to

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Arrows & direction696 symbols

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