Reverse button Emoji

Symbols

A solid, right-pointing triangle aimed to the left, rendered in a standard digital interface blue or grey. It visually mimics the physical control buttons found on analog tape decks and early digital media players.

Usage Context

This icon is the universal shorthand for playing media in reverse or rewinding a track. It is frequently used to signal a return to a previous section of content or a literal instruction to scroll left. You will often see it paired with ▶ for playback controls or ⏪ for fast-rewind functions.

History

These directional triangle icons date back to the standardized control panels of 1960s reel-to-reel tape recorders. They were later adopted by the VCR and cassette era before becoming a permanent fixture in the graphical user interfaces of computer-based media players in the 1990s.

Details

Glyph

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Unicode

U+25C0

Shortcode

:emoji_u25c0:

HTML Entity

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Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Symbols

Subcategory av-symbol

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

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