What 🢤 means
Use the Unicode character; ^ works only in Wingdings 3.
With the legacy Wingdings 3 font selected, its ^ slot draws 🢤. In a standard text font, ^ stays a caret, so it cannot stand in for this character in another document.
If the arrow appears as a box, blank space, or fallback, the receiving font or browser setup cannot render it. A Unicode character picker or the app’s Unicode entry method can insert the character; steps vary by system.
What does the shaded left arrow mean?
It points left; nearby text supplies the specific meaning.
Read it first as a leftward direction or navigation cue. Surrounding words tell you whether someone means “back,” “previous,” or a literal move left; on its own, it has no fixed chat-reaction reading.
The design comes from shaded-white arrows used in desktop symbol fonts. A Unicode proposal in 2011 explains that encoding these private-font shapes lets them travel as text between systems; it notes that Wingdings was included with Windows 3.1 in 1992.
Technical and decorative; it reads as a diagram mark more readily than as a chat reaction.
A font without this glyph may show a box instead of an arrow.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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3Questions people ask
1Is the shaded arrow an emoji?
No. It is a text symbol rendered by the chosen font, so its appearance depends on font support rather than vendor emoji artwork.
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How to type or find 🢤
- Also called
- left-shaded white leftwards arrow
- Search it as
- Wingdings · Wingdings 3 · oleftshadlft · left shaded arrow · shaded white arrow · Wingdings arrow · caret arrow
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🢤\1F8A4^ draws 🢤; in a standard font, ^ stays a caret.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.