Leftwards Arrow ←
Symbol Meaning
Typographic arrow symbols look like arrows and show a certain direction. The left arrow, respectively, points left.
This can be a traffic sign “left” or an icon showing the direction to an object (a toilet is on the left along the corridor).
On the Internet and computer technologies, the left arrow often shows “back” and “cancel”.
The “backspace” key, often denoted by this character, deletes characters entered. In the browser, the left arrow (the same backspace key) returns a user to the previous page. It can also denote an item in the list before the current one (in paginators, sliders, on this site — go to a page with a symbol with a smaller code).
The Rightwards Arrow → has the opposite meaning. Go to the next site, symbol, cancel the return to the previous page.
The symbol “Leftwards Arrow” is included in the “Simple arrows” subblock of the “Arrows” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Leftwards Arrow |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Arrows |
| Unicode Subblock | Simple arrows |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Alt Code |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2190 |
| Simple case change | 2190 |
| Math | + |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 86 90 | 226 134 144 | 14845584 | 11100010 10000110 10010000 |
| UTF-16BE | 21 90 | 33 144 | 8592 | 00100001 10010000 |
| UTF-16LE | 90 21 | 144 33 | 36897 | 10010000 00100001 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 21 90 | 0 0 33 144 | 8592 | 00000000 00000000 00100001 10010000 |
| UTF-32LE | 90 21 00 00 | 144 33 0 0 | 2418081792 | 10010000 00100001 00000000 00000000 |
