Black Curved Upwards And Leftwards Arrow

Group: More symbols

Keywords

symbols-extra

About this character

Black Curved Upwards And Leftwards Arrow belongs to the More symbols group and is encoded at U+2BAA. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

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

Technical codes

Code point: U+2BAA
Hex: 2BAA
Decimal: 11178
HTML: ⮪
CSS: \2BAA
JavaScript: \u2BAA
Python: \u2BAA
UTF-8: E2 AE AA

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

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.