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.

The symbol “Leftwards Arrow” is included in the “Simple arrows” subblock of the “Arrows” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.

Text is also available in the following languages: Русский;

Unicode Name Leftwards Arrow
Unicode Number
HTML Code
CSS Code
Unicode Block Arrows
Unicode Subblock Simple arrows
Unicode Version 1.1 (1993)
Alt Code
Version 1.1
Block Arrows
Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) None
Composition Exclusion No
Case change 2190
Simple case change 2190
Math +
Grapheme_Base +
age 1.1
scripts Common
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

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