Left arrow Emoji

Symbols

A bold, solid arrow pointing toward the left side of the screen. It is a straightforward directional indicator used to guide the eye or point to specific elements.

Usage Context

Used to signal movement, point to text or other images, or represent the 'back' function in user interfaces. It is frequently grouped with ➡️ to represent navigation or a back-and-forth process.

History

Arrows have been a fundamental part of digital communication since the early days of computing, appearing in the original Wingdings character sets and Unicode 1.1 in 1993 to help users navigate text-heavy interfaces.

Details

Glyph

⬅

Unicode

U+2B05

Shortcode

:emoji_u2b05:

HTML Entity

⬅

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category Symbols

Subcategory arrow

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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