U+1F504 Anticlockwise Downwards and Upwards Open Circle Arrows

U+1F504 was added in Unicode version 6.0 in 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. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+1F504 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.

The CLDR project calls this character “counterclockwise arrows button” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: again, anticlockwise, arrow, arrows, button, counterclockwise, deja, refresh, rewindershins, vu.

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.