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leftwards heavy compressed arrow

Leftwards Heavy Compressed Arrow

🡀 is a fat, compact arrow pointing left. Use it as a leftward marker or a link back. It is a text character, not emoji artwork, and its design comes from the Wingdings 3 font family.

Text symbol
Search it as
wingdings 3 · wingdings arrow · fat arrow · bold arrow
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 🡀 means

It points left; the weight is visual emphasis.

In a route it marks leftward movement; beside a sequence it can point back to an earlier step. Labels and surrounding text decide which reading fits.

Why is 🡀 in Unicode?

To carry a font glyph as ordinary text.

A 2011 Unicode proposal lists this as a Wingdings 3 heavy-compressed arrow. The Wingdings family dates to 1992; that is the font family’s date, not necessarily this glyph’s first appearance.

The proposal aimed to make symbol-font glyphs searchable and interoperable without the original font. The arrow still points left; its format changed from a font drawing to a Unicode character.

Don't confuse it with

4
🠘
Heavy Leftwards Arrow With Equilateral Arrowhead
shares “arrow”, “heavy”, “leftwards”
🠜
Heavy Leftwards Arrow With Large Equilateral Arrowhead
shares “arrow”, “heavy”, “leftwards”
🠬
Leftwards Triangle-Headed Arrow With Heavy Shaft
shares “arrow”, “heavy”, “leftwards”
🠰
Leftwards Triangle-Headed Arrow With Very Heavy Shaft
shares “arrow”, “heavy”, “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 1F840, 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 heavy compressed arrow”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1f840, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🡀
CSS
\1F840
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🡀
HTML hex
🡀
CSS content
content: "\1F840";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%A1%80
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.

Families this belongs to

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Arrows & direction696 symbols

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