About Left Arrow
Left Arrow is the Unicode character ⬅️ at codepoint U+2B05 in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Technical Reference
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| UTF-8 (hex) | |
| UTF-16 (hex) | |
| HEX Entity | |
| CSS (\xxxx) | |
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How to Use Left Arrow
To use the Left Arrow symbol (⬅️) in HTML, insert the
entity ⬅️ directly into your markup.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\2B05';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2B05' evaluates to ⬅️. In Python source, write '\u2B05'.
The character encodes to E2 AC 85 as UTF-8 bytes and 2B05 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 11013.
This is a fully-qualified emoji and should render with colour on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. Appearance may vary between platforms, but the underlying codepoint is identical everywhere.