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Technical information
| Symbol | ← | |
| Name | Leftwards arrow | |
| Unicode number | U+2190 | |
| Category | Triangle-headed arrows | |
| Description | The Unicode character ←, or U+2190, is known as the "Leftwards Arrow". It falls under the "Arrows" block and the "Symbol, Math" category in the Unicode standard. As its name suggests, this character visually depicts an arrow pointing towards the left. It is widely used in various contexts such as to indicate direction, denote backwards navigation in software interfaces, or signify the movement or transfer of data or ideas in diagrams and flowcharts. Furthermore, in mathematics, it can be used to indicate a specific function's inverse, or in chemistry, it might denote a reversible reaction. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ← | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ← | |
| HTML Entity (named) | ← | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%86%90 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x86 0x90 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10000110:10010000 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x2190 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00002190 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u2190" | |
| CSS Code | \2190 | |
| JavaScript | "\u2190" | |
| Perl | \x{2190} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u2190" | |
| Python 3 | \u2190 | |
| Ruby | \u{2190} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ← in sentence and in bold like this ← and in italic like this ←.
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HTML Forms and Input
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
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span {
content: "\2190";
}The symbol in different fonts
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