← Leftwards Arrow
U+2190
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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
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⮃
Downwards Triangle-Headed Arrow...
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⇅
Upwards Arrow Leftwards of Downwards...
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⮂
Rightwards Triangle-Headed Arrow Over...
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⮀
Leftwards Triangle-Headed Arrow Over...
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⇵
Downwards Arrow Leftwards of Upwards...
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⇄
Rightwards Arrow Over Leftwards Arrow
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⇆
Leftwards Arrow Over Rightwards Arrow
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⮁
Upwards Triangle-Headed Arrow...
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⥂
Rightwards Arrow Above Short Leftwards...
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⥃
Leftwards Arrow Above Short Rightwards...
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⥄
Short Rightwards Arrow Above Leftwards...
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↹
Leftwards Arrow To Bar Over Rightwards...
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⥢
Leftwards Harpoon with Barb Up Above...
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🢪
Leftwards Front-Tilted Shadowed White...
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↤
Leftwards Arrow from Bar
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 |