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U+2B05 · LEFTWARDS BLACK ARROW

Leftwards Black Arrow

  • CodepointU+2B05
  • NameLEFTWARDS BLACK ARROW
  • Emoji nameleft arrow
  • Decimal11013
  • BlockMiscellaneous Symbols and Arrows (U+2B00–U+2BFF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version4.0 (2003)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2B05 (⬅) is LEFTWARDS BLACK ARROW, a symbol in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 4.0 (2003).

Its emoji name (CLDR short name) is “left arrow”, in the Symbols group, subgroup arrow. By default it is shown as a text glyph; follow it with U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 to request the colour emoji form (U+2B05 U+FE0F), or with U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15 to force text style.

How to type ⬅

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 AC 853 bytes
UTF-162B051 code unit
UTF-3200002B054 bytes
HTML decimal⬅
HTML hex⬅
CSS\2B05in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2B05
JSON\u2B05
Python\u2B05
Python\N{LEFTWARDS BLACK ARROW}by name
Java / C#\u2B05
C / C++\u2B05universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2B05}
Go\u2B05
Ruby\u2B05
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(11013)
URL-encoded%E2%AC%85percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows

All in block →
U+2B00⬀North East White Arrow U+2B01⬁North West White Arrow U+2B02⬂South East White Arrow U+2B03⬃South West White Arrow U+2B04⬄Left Right White Arrow U+2B06⬆Upwards Black Arrow U+2B07⬇Downwards Black Arrow U+2B08⬈North East Black Arrow U+2B09⬉North West Black Arrow U+2B0A⬊South East Black Arrow U+2B0B⬋South West Black Arrow