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← Leftwards Arrow

U+2190

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Technical information

Name	Leftwards Arrow
Unicode number	U+2190
HTML-code	←
CSS-code	\2190
Block	Arrows
Unicode version:	1.1 (1993)
Alt code:	Alt 27

Symbol meaning

Typographic arrow symbols look like arrows and show a certain direction. The left arrow, respectively, points left.

This can be a traffic sign «left» or an icon showing the direction to an object (a toilet is on the left along the corridor).

On the Internet and computer technologies, the left arrow often shows «back» and «cancel».

The «backspace» key, often denoted by this character, deletes characters entered. In the browser, the left arrow (the same backspace key) returns a user to the previous page. It can also denote an item in the list before the current one (in paginators, sliders, on this site — go to a page with a symbol with a smaller code).

The Rightwards Arrow → has the opposite meaning. Go to the next site, symbol, cancel the return to the previous page.

Leftwards Arrow was approved as part of Unicode 1.1 in 1993.

Text is also available in the following languages: Русский;

Properties

Age	1.1
Block	Arrows
Bidi Paired Bracket Type	None
Composition Exclusion	No
Case Folding	2190
Simple Case Folding	2190

Related characters

Encoding

Encoding	hex	dec (bytes)	dec	binary
UTF-8	E2 86 90	226 134 144	14845584	11100010 10000110 10010000
UTF-16BE	21 90	33 144	8592	00100001 10010000
UTF-16LE	90 21	144 33	36897	10010000 00100001
UTF-32BE	00 00 21 90	0 0 33 144	8592	00000000 00000000 00100001 10010000
UTF-32LE	90 21 00 00	144 33 0 0	2418081792	10010000 00100001 00000000 00000000