up-left arrow

Emoji 0.6

up-left arrow

Also known as arrow, direction, intercardinal, northwest, up-left

An arrow pointing to the upper left, indicating the northwest or up-left direction.

Unicode U+2196 Added in Emoji 0.6 Category symbols Subcategory arrows

Meaning

This emoji shows an arrow pointing diagonally to the upper left. It is commonly used to indicate direction, movement, or navigation toward the northwest, or to point at something in the upper left area.

Unicode name

The official Unicode name is North West Arrow, representing the intercardinal direction northwest.

Platform designs

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System
up-left arrow · Noto
Noto
up-left arrow · Twemoji
Twemoji
up-left arrow · OpenMoji
OpenMoji
Apple

In Apple's design, it appears as a blue arrow pointing to the upper left.

Google

In Google's Noto design, it is a flat blue arrow pointing to the upper left.

Twitter

In Twitter's Twemoji design, it appears as a blue arrow pointing to the upper left.

Noto (Apache 2.0) · Twemoji (CC BY 4.0) · OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Frequently Asked Questions

Which category does ↖️ up-left arrow belong to?
↖️ up-left arrow belongs to the symbols category, which contains 224 emojis.
Which Unicode version added ↖️ up-left arrow?
↖️ up-left arrow was added in Emoji 0.6. Its codepoint is U+2196, made up of 1 code points.
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