Fast Reverse Button Emoji
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What does the Fast Reverse Button emoji mean?
1
A blue panel icon featuring two overlapping white triangles pointing left. Click or tap to rewind the playback.
2
This emoji closely resembles the reverse of ◀️, but here you see two white triangles pointing left. Its meaning is “rewind.”
It’s used to show the need to rewind the multimedia file—either a few seconds back or all the way to the beginning. Once found on player controls and tape recorders, this symbol now appears on modern multimedia players and apps.
Also Known As
- ⏪ Rewind
Apple Name
- ⏪ Rewind Symbol
Unicode Name
- ⏪ Black Left-Pointing Double Triangle
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Fast Reverse Button emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
⏪ Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+23EA
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Discord
- works in Emojipedia
For developers
| URL escape code | %E2%8F%AA |
| Punycode | xn--boh |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | E2 8F AA |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \u23EA |
| C, C++, Python | \u23EA |
| CSS | \23EA |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{23EA} |
| Perl | \x{23EA} |
| HTML hex | ⏪ |
| HTML dec | ⏪ |
Tags: arrow, double, fast reverse button, rewind, button, fast, reverse
Category: Symbols
Subgroup: Media controls