⬅️ Left Arrow emoji

Copy the ⬅️ Left Arrow emoji (2 code points), a Symbols emoji from Emoji 0.6 (2010). HTML ⬅️ and CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL codes.

CLDR name: left arrow
Code points: U+2B05 U+FE0F
Type: Character plus emoji variation selector
Group: Symbols
Subgroup: Arrow
Introduced: Emoji 0.6 (2010)
Text form: ⬅ (U+2B05)
Keywords: arrow, cardinal, direction, left, west

About this emoji

⬅️ Left Arrow is an emoji in the Symbols group, arrow subgroup, first released in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the label Unicode gives to characters that became emoji with Unicode 6.0 in 2010, before emoji had version numbers of their own.

CLDR, the Unicode project that supplies emoji names in many languages, gives it the English keywords arrow, cardinal, direction, left and west; that is what emoji keyboards match when you search.

It is the character ⬅ (U+2B05 LEFTWARDS BLACK ARROW) followed by the variation selector U+FE0F, which asks for the colourful emoji style. Without the selector, many systems show a plain text symbol instead.

Codes to copy

HTML decimal	`⬅️`Works in HTML and XML.
HTML hex	`⬅️`Works in HTML and XML.
CSS	`content: "\2B05 \FE0F";`In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after.
JavaScript	`"\u2B05\uFE0F"`Also valid in JSON.
Python	`"\u2b05\ufe0f"`Python 3 string literal.
Python by name	`"\N{LEFTWARDS BLACK ARROW}\N{VARIATION SELECTOR-16}"`Readable alternative using the Unicode name.
URL	`%E2%AC%85%EF%B8%8F`Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value.
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 AC 85 EF B8 8F`6 bytes in all.
UTF-16	`2B05 FE0F`2 code units, which is what JavaScript length counts.

What it is made of

Code point	Shows as	Unicode name
`U+2B05`	⬅	LEFTWARDS BLACK ARROW
`U+FE0F`	invisible	VARIATION SELECTOR-16

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