Black left-pointing triangle

Meaning and uses

A solid triangle pointing left, the back or rewind button in text. It pairs with ▶ for previous and next.

Unicode details

◀ is the Unicode character named BLACK LEFT-POINTING TRIANGLE, code point U+25C0, in the Geometric Shapes block. It was added in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, and Unicode classes it as a symbol (general category So).

It can also appear as an emoji, listed under the name “reverse button”. Plain text is its default, but some apps draw it in colour anyway. Adding the invisible variation selector U+FE0F after it asks for the emoji style, and U+FE0E asks for plain text.

Tap a code to copy it:

How to type ◀

• On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
• On a phone, it is on the emoji keyboard: search for “reverse button”. On Windows, press the Windows key and the full stop (Win+.) to open the emoji panel and search there.
• On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “reverse button”.
• On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 25c0, then Space or Enter.
• In HTML, use ◀. In a CSS content property, use "\25C0".