Up-left Arrow

U+2196

About Up-left Arrow

Up-left Arrow is the Unicode character ↖️ at codepoint U+2196 in the Arrows block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).

Technical Reference

Unicode Codepoint
Decimal
UTF-8 (hex)
UTF-16 (hex)
HEX Entity
CSS (\xxxx)
JavaScript
Python

How to Use Up-left Arrow

To use the Up-left Arrow symbol (↖️) in HTML, insert the entity ↖️ directly into your markup.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\2196';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2196' evaluates to ↖️. In Python source, write '\u2196'.

The character encodes to E2 86 96 as UTF-8 bytes and 2196 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 8598.

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.

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