🔙 Back Arrow
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Emoji Meaning
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?
🔙 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F519
Shortcodes
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- 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 | 🔙 |