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🔙 BACK arrow
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🔙 Emoji meaning
Undo, back, backward, starting position, and the past.
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🔙 Meaning
A left-pointing arrow with the word “BACK“ underneath. Can be used literally or metaphorically. “Turn around and take the other way“. Start over or return to something.
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Commonly confused with
Direction Variant
Leftwards arrow with hook vs BACK arrow; both indicate going back or returning.
BACK arrow vs END arrow; both labeled arrow buttons used in interfaces.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “BACK arrow” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .
In the release of Emoji 14.0 and Unicode 14.0 in 2021 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ BACK
Keywords removed
- back - BACK arrow
In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ BACK arrow
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there were 2 changes.
Emoji title renamed
Emoji title before
back arrow
Emoji title after
BACK arrow
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ arrow + back
In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords removed
- back
