↩️

Right Arrow Curving Left Emoji ↩️

An arrow that travels right before hooking sharply back to point left, the shape behind the reply icon in most email and chat apps. People type it ahead of a quote to mean replying to this, and it covers undo too, a step walked back before it's committed.

What ↩️ means

A ➡️ Right Arrow bent and extended at the arrowhead, forming a clean 'U' turn towards the left. The ↩️ Right Arrow Curving Left emoji represents the 'undo' button or the 'Reply' sign on the digital front. It could also suggest a 'left U-turn' from a traffic/route perspective.

How and when to use it

While sharing thoughtful quotes, pictures/videos with such quotes in the caption, or even a text message conveying the same, you can use ↩️. For instance, "It's never too late to undo who you had become ↩️" or "That's the thing. You cannot undo the bigger decisions in life ↩️".
Taking a 'U' turn from the initial course may suggest going back for something or a sense of 'going back to square 1' too. So, if you encounter such contexts on any platform, feel free to use ↩️.
Some examples for the previous use-case: "I really wish you to go back for that file ↩️", "Ugh. It's all back to square one now or what ↩️" or "Get back to your roots to understand where you're from! ↩️".
Speaking of 'going back' to one's roots, ↩️ could also signify home, one's hometown, or even playing from/at home from a sports POV.
↩️ could symbolize 'reposts', 'resharing', and 'retweeting' too

Other Names

↩️ Undo
↩️ Redo
↩️ Left 'U' Turn
↩️ Reply
↩️ Email Reply
↩️ Left Curved Arrow
↩️ Leftwards Arrow With Hook
↩️ Reply to All
↩️ Head Back
↩️ Square One

The lowdown

Category: Symbols › arrow
Codepoints: U+21A9 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :leftwards_arrow_with_hook: GitHub
Keywords: arrow, curving, left, right

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.