Leftwards Black Arrow is the Unicode character ⬅ at codepoint U+2B05 in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard — or use one of the
encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.
Technical Reference
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How to Use Leftwards Black Arrow
To use the Leftwards Black Arrow symbol (⬅) in HTML, insert the
entity ⬅ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ⬅ works in any HTML-serialised document.
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 text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.