Leftwards arrow copy & paste
← is leftwards arrow, a plain-text Unicode symbol from the Arrows block. On Aesthetic Symbols it lives in the arrows & pointers collection, tagged arrow. As plain text it takes on the font and colour of wherever you paste it — a bio, a username, a caption or a stream title.
- Unicode
- U+2190
- HTML entity
- ←
- CSS content
- \2190
- JavaScript
- \u{2190}
- UTF-8 bytes
- E2 86 90
- Made of
U+2190 ← · Arrows
Will it show up? · Long-established text symbols
Plain-text characters from blocks that mainstream desktop and mobile fonts have covered for years. These are the safe ones.
Worked out from how each character is encoded, not from a test on a real device.
Similar symbols
- ↑Upwards arrow
- →Rightwards arrow
- ↓Downwards arrow
- ↔Left-right arrow
- ↕Up-down arrow
- ↖North-west arrow
- ↗North-east arrow
- ↘South-east arrow
- ↙South-west arrow
- ↩Leftwards arrow with hook
- ↪Rightwards arrow with hook
- ↫Leftwards arrow with loop
- ↬Rightwards arrow with loop
- ↯Downwards zigzag arrow
- ↺Anticlockwise open-circle arrow
- ↻Clockwise open-circle arrow