BACK arrow

Group: Symbols · Subgroup: Arrow · Emoji 0.6

Keywords

arrow
BACK
back

About this character

BACK arrow belongs to the Symbols group and is encoded at U+1F519. It was added in Unicode 0.6.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+1F519
Hex: 1F519
Decimal: 128281
HTML: 🔙
CSS: \1F519
JavaScript: \u{1F519}
Python: \U0001F519
UTF-8: F0 9F 94 99

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

up arrow U+2B06
up-right arrow U+2197
right arrow U+27A1
down-right arrow U+2198
down arrow U+2B07
down-left arrow U+2199
left arrow U+2B05
up-left arrow U+2196
up-down arrow U+2195
left-right arrow U+2194
right arrow curving left U+21A9
left arrow curving right U+21AA
right arrow curving up U+2934
right arrow curving down U+2935
clockwise vertical arrows U+1F503
counterclockwise arrows button U+1F504
END arrow U+1F51A
ON! arrow U+1F51B
SOON arrow U+1F51C
TOP arrow U+1F51D

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.