Emoji
(BACK WITH LEFTWARDS ARROW ABOVE): meaning and Unicode code
Meaning of the emoji
(BACK WITH LEFTWARDS ARROW ABOVE), Unicode code, HTML entity, and usage examples. Copy the symbol with one click.

Information about emoji BACK WITH LEFTWARDS ARROW ABOVE
- Unicode Name
- BACK WITH LEFTWARDS ARROW ABOVE
- Unicode Codepoint
- U+1F519
- Category
- Symbols
- Subcategory
- arrow
- Slug
- back
Meaning and description of emoticon 🔙
Emoji 🔙 depicts the word BACK with a left-pointing arrow above it. Belongs to the "Symbols" group of the Unicode standard.
🔙 primarily conveys direction, transition, and a visual cue about the movement of gaze or action. 🔙 works best when you need to show direction, the next step, transition, a pointer, or gaze movement across an interface or text. And in messages, this usually means "look this way" or "direction matters" or "this is a pointer to the next step." 🔙 is often placed alongside ➡ 📍 👀, and the whole message becomes more expressive. A typical phrase with 🔙: "What matters here is the hint about where to look or move next 🔙" — and the context is instantly clear. Behind 🔙 literal meaning lies the fact that arrows often mean not just a literal path, but structure, order, and the logic of transitioning from one element to another.
Usage Examples 🔙
| Format | Code | |
|---|---|---|
| Shortcode (Slack) | :back: | |
| Shortcode (Discord) | :back: | |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :back: | |
| HTML Dec | 🔙 | |
| HTML Hex | 🔙 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F519"; | |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001F519 | |
| Java, JavaScript & JSON | \uD83D\uDD19 | |
| Perl | \x{1F519} | |
| PHP & Ruby | \u{1F519} | |
| Punycode | xn--sv8h | |
| URL Escape Code | %F0%9F%94%99 | |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 94 99 |