Erase To The Left
Erase To The Left has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ⌫
- Unicode
- U+232B
About this symbol
⌫, erase to the left, is the backspace symbol, printed on the delete key of Apple keyboards and many others. It deletes the character before the cursor; its mirror image ⌦ deletes the one after.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- ERASE TO THE LEFT
- Also called
- Delete to the left key
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Miscellaneous Technical
- Unicode group
- Keyboard symbol
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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