Black Left-Pointing Pointer
Part of Geometric Shapes
On Windows, hold Alt and type 17 on the numeric keypad to insert black left-pointing pointer.
- Alt code
- Alt+17
- HTML entity
- ◄
- Unicode
- U+25C4
About this symbol
◄, the black left-pointing pointer, is Alt+17, the partner of ►, Alt+16, among the pictures the IBM PC gave to its first 32 character codes in 1981.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- BLACK LEFT-POINTING POINTER
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Geometric Shapes
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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