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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
Entity	←
Block	Arrows
Unicode version:	1.1.5 (1993)

Character description

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.

Text is also available in the following languages: Русский;

Related characters

⥂

Rightwards Arrow Above Short Leftwards...

⇄

Rightwards Arrow Over Leftwards Arrow

⥃

Leftwards Arrow Above Short Rightwards...

⥄

Short Rightwards Arrow Above Leftwards...

⇵

Downwards Arrow Leftwards of Upwards...

⇆

Leftwards Arrow Over Rightwards Arrow

⇅

Upwards Arrow Leftwards of Downwards...

↹

Leftwards Arrow To Bar Over Rightwards...

⥷

Leftwards Arrow Through Less-Than

⥶

Less-Than Above Leftwards Arrow

⥳

Leftwards Arrow Above Tilde Operator

⥺

Leftwards Arrow Through Subset

⇠

Leftwards Dashed Arrow

⥻

Superset Above Leftwards Arrow

⤌

Leftwards Double Dash Arrow

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