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↖️ Up-left arrow
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↖️ Emoji meaning
Reorientation, rethinking, looking back, correction, and northwest.
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↖️ Meaning
It’s in the closet at the top left! The arrow points up to the left or to the northwest. Can refer to the cardinal point or serve as a route description. It’s the house on the left!
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Commonly confused with
Color Variant
Leftwards black arrow vs north west arrow; both lean towards the left side, difference is diagonal vs straight.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Up-left arrow” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
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+ up-left
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- up-left arrow
In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
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+ up-left arrow
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
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+ arrow + direction + intercardinal + northwest
In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.
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- northwest
