U+1F504 Anticlockwise Downwards and Upwards Open Circle Arrows

U+1F504 was added to Unicode in version 6.0 (2010). It belongs to the block U+1F300 to U+1F5FF Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs in the U+10000 to U+1FFFF Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as reload.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+1F504 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The CLDR project labels this character “counterclockwise arrows button” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: anticlockwise, arrow, counterclockwise, counterclockwise arrows button, withershins.

This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Variation Selector-15: 🔄︎ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.