About
The Left Arrow emoji (⬅️) is your digital compass when you need to point someone in the right direction—or rather, the left one. It's the helpful hand gesture of the emoji world, guiding confused souls back to where they came from or highlighting something important that's lurking off to the side.
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When to use ⬅️
- →Giving directions in a message
- →Pointing to something in a previous message or image
- →Indicating 'go back' or 'return to previous'
- →Creating simple diagrams or flowcharts
- →Showing movement or progression in a sequence
Keywords
leftarrowcardinaldirectionwestsymbols
Related Concepts
go backthis wayover herenavigatereturnpreviouswestwardpointingguidereference
Unicode
- Codepoint
- 2B05
- Unicode Version
- 6.1
- Added in Emoji
- 0.6
Did you know?
This emoji was part of the very first emoji specification (Emoji 0.6), making it one of the OG directional symbols that helped establish the foundation for all the navigational chaos that followed.
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02/22/26
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