North West Arrow Emoji ↖

U+2196

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Emoji Meaning

An arrow pointing diagonally in a north-west direction. It's depicted on different backgrounds depending on the platform, from light blue to dark blue.

The symbol “North West Arrow” is included in the “Simple arrows” Subblock of the “Arrows” Block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. In 2015, it was also approved as an emoji in version 1.0 and added to the “Arrow” Subcategory of the “Symbols” Category.

Text is also available in the following languages: Español; Русский;

Synonyms

Up-Left Arrow.

Unicode Name	North West Arrow
Unicode Number
HTML Code
CSS Code
Unicode Block	Arrows
Unicode Subblock	Simple arrows
Unicode Version	1.1 (1993)
Emoji Version	1.0 (2015)
Emoji Category	Symbols
Emoji Subcategory	Arrow

Version	1.1
Block	Arrows
Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi)	None
Composition Exclusion	No
Case change	2196
Simple case change	2196

Encoding	hex	dec (bytes)	dec	binary
UTF-8	E2 86 96	226 134 150	14845590	11100010 10000110 10010110
UTF-16BE	21 96	33 150	8598	00100001 10010110
UTF-16LE	96 21	150 33	38433	10010110 00100001
UTF-32BE	00 00 21 96	0 0 33 150	8598	00000000 00000000 00100001 10010110
UTF-32LE	96 21 00 00	150 33 0 0	2518745088	10010110 00100001 00000000 00000000