Reverse Button Emoji
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What does the Reverse Button emoji mean?
1
A square of blue featuring a white triangle pointing left. Click or tap it to return to the previous scene.
2
This button indicates reverse — in other words, going back or rewinding. It appears as a white equilateral triangle with one point facing left.
You'll often see this icon in messages about movie scenes, when someone praises the actors' performances or admits to watching the same section of a film multiple times.
Also Known As
- ◀️ Left Triangle
Apple Name
- ◀️ Left-Pointing Triangle
Unicode Name
- ◀️ Black Left-Pointing Triangle
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Reverse Button emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
◀️ Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+25C0 U+FE0F
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Discord
- works in Emojipedia
For developers
| URL escape code | %E2%97%80%EF%B8%8F |
| Punycode | xn--q1h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | E2 97 80 EF B8 8F |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \u25C0\uFE0F |
| C, C++, Python | \u25C0\uFE0F |
| CSS | \25C0 \FE0F |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{25C0}\u{FE0F} |
| Perl | \x{25C0}\x{FE0F} |
| HTML hex | ◀️ |
| HTML dec | ◀️ |
Tags: arrow, left, reverse, reverse button, triangle, button
Category: Symbols
Subgroup: Media controls