Back Arrow Emoji
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What does the Back Arrow emoji mean?
1
A purple: sometimes blue, left-pointing arrow with the word “BACK” underneath. It resembles the familiar back button you see in browsers and apps, letting users step back and undo their last action.
2
A square pointer featuring a white left-pointing arrow and the word “back” in English. This emoji closely resembles a back button and is often used to erase or undo entered text.
You can find a similar key on many keyboards. The emoji is typically used literally to indicate a return or step back to a previous stage or action.
Also Known As
- 🔙 Back
Apple Name
- 🔙 Back Arrow
Unicode Name
- 🔙 Back with Leftwards Arrow Above
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Back Arrow emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🔙 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F519
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Discord
- works in Emojipedia
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%94%99 |
| Punycode | xn--sv8h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 94 99 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83D\uDD19 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f519 |
| CSS | \01F519 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F519} |
| Perl | \x{1F519} |
| HTML hex | 🔙 |
| HTML dec | 🔙 |