About
The Back Arrow emoji (🔙) is your digital bread crumb trail, pointing the way home when you've wandered too far down the rabbit hole. It's the reassuring friend that says 'hey, remember where you came from' whether you're lost in a Wikipedia spiral or need to gracefully exit a conversation that got weird.
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Vibe & Tone
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When to use 🔙
- →Signaling you want to return to a previous topic in conversation
- →Indicating nostalgia or wanting to go back to better times
- →Suggesting someone reconsider or reverse their position
- →Navigation instructions or giving directions
- →Expressing the desire to undo or take back something
Keywords
backarrowsymbols
Related Concepts
returnpreviousnavigateexitretreatrewindundoway backreversehome
Unicode
- Codepoint
- 1F519
- Unicode Version
- 6.1
- Added in Emoji
- 0.6
Did you know?
As one of the earliest emoji additions in Unicode 6.1, the Back Arrow was born from the need to translate basic computer interface elements into universal visual language—making it a rare emoji that's essentially digital punctuation.
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