Leftwards Arrow

Group: Arrows

Keywords

arrows

About this character

Leftwards Arrow belongs to the Arrows group and is encoded at U+2190. 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+2190
Hex: 2190
Decimal: 8592
HTML: ←
CSS: \2190
JavaScript: \u2190
Python: \u2190
UTF-8: E2 86 90

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

Upwards Arrow U+2191
Rightwards Arrow U+2192
Downwards Arrow U+2193
Left Right Arrow U+2194
Up Down Arrow U+2195
North West Arrow U+2196
North East Arrow U+2197
South East Arrow U+2198
South West Arrow U+2199
Leftwards Arrow With Stroke U+219A
Rightwards Arrow With Stroke U+219B
Leftwards Wave Arrow U+219C
Rightwards Wave Arrow U+219D
Leftwards Two Headed Arrow U+219E
Upwards Two Headed Arrow U+219F
Rightwards Two Headed Arrow U+21A0
Downwards Two Headed Arrow U+21A1
Leftwards Arrow With Tail U+21A2
Rightwards Arrow With Tail U+21A3
Leftwards Arrow From Bar U+21A4
Upwards Arrow From Bar U+21A5
Rightwards Arrow From Bar U+21A6
Downwards Arrow From Bar U+21A7
Up Down Arrow With Base U+21A8

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.