Down-left Arrow
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Southwest Arrow·Diagonal Down Arrow
Retreat Arrow·Bottom Left Arrow
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The Down-Left Arrow emoji (↙️) is your GPS for awkward conversations and strategic retreats. It's the polite way to say "I'm backing out of this situation" or to literally point toward something in the bottom-left corner of your screen, though let's be honest—it's mostly about the metaphorical backing away.
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When to use ↙️
- →Indicating you're leaving an uncomfortable conversation
- →Pointing to something in the lower left of an image or screen
- →Showing a downward trend combined with movement away
- →Creating simple diagrams or giving directions
- →Suggesting a strategic retreat from a situation
Keywords
downleftarrowdirectiondown-leftintercardinalsouthwestsymbols
Related Concepts
backing outretreatnope outexit strategycornerdiagonalsouthwestdirectionescape routetactical withdrawal
Unicode
- Codepoint
- 2199
- Unicode Version
- 6.1
- Added in Emoji
- 0.6
Did you know?
This arrow represents one of the four intercardinal directions (southwest), making it part of the original set of directional arrows that helped early digital interfaces guide users before we had fancy touch gestures.
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