What 🠤 means
It marks a leftward route or points back to earlier text.
Unicode proposals from 2011 trace this arrow family to Wingdings and Webdings, older computer symbol fonts. They record its path into Unicode, not when the arrow was first drawn.
Technical and diagrammatic; it signals direction.
Alone, it gives no destination.
Part of the collection
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsMarks a leftward connection.
Don't confuse it with
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Leftwards Arrow
← is the plain left arrow; 🠤 has a triangular head and a heavier shaft.
Leftwards Triangle-Headed Arrow With Narrow Shaft
The narrow-shaft version: same triangle head and direction, thinner stem.
Leftwards Triangle-Headed Arrow
A triangle-headed left arrow from another block with no shaft weight in its name; fonts draw them much alike.
Related characters
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Upwards Triangle-Headed Arrow With Medium Shaft
The upward counterpart, with the same triangular head and medium shaft.
Leftwards Triangle-Headed Arrow With Bold Shaft
Same leftward direction and triangular head, but with a narrower shaft.
Rightwards Triangle-Headed Arrow With Medium Shaft
Its opposite: the right-pointing arrow from the same medium-shaft, triangle-headed set.
Downwards Triangle-Headed Arrow With Medium Shaft
The down-pointing member of the same medium-shaft, triangle-headed four-arrow set.
Leftwards Triangle-Headed Arrow With Heavy Shaft
The heavy-shaft step of the same leftward series, which runs narrow, medium, bold, heavy, very heavy.
Combination ideas
3Go back to the previous page.
Go to the item before this one.
Swipe left to see more.
Questions people ask
1Why does 🠤 show as a box?
Font coverage can fail. A 2021 report recorded a box in Chrome on macOS High Sierra.
More like this
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←Leftwards Arrow
⬅️Left Arrow
👈Backhand Index Pointing Left6 forms
◄Black Left-Pointing Pointer
→Rightwards Arrow
↔️Left-Right Arrow
🠢Rightwards Triangle-Headed Arrow With Narrow Shaft
🠣Downwards Triangle-Headed Arrow With Narrow Shaft
🠥Upwards Triangle-Headed Arrow With Medium Shaft
↑Upwards Arrow
↓Downwards Arrow
↚Leftwards Arrow With StrokeHow to type or find 🠤
- Search it as
- left arrow symbol · Wingdings arrow · arrow shows as box
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
🠤CSS
\1F824Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🠤
HTML hex
🠤
CSS content
content: "\1F824";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%A0%A4
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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.