U+23EA Black Left-Pointing Double Triangle
U+23EA was added in Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. It belongs to the block Miscellaneous Technical in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as rewind and fast backwards.
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+23EA forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The CLDR project calls this character “fast reverse button” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: arrow, double, rewind.
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.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
In digital electronics, analogue electronics and entertainment, the user interface may include media controls, transport controls or player controls, to enact and change or adjust the process of video playback, audio playback, and alike. These controls are commonly depicted as widely known symbols found in a multitude of products, exemplifying what is known as dominant design.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 9194 |
| UTF-8 | E2 8F AA |
| UTF-16 | 23 EA |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 23 EA |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%8F%AA |
| HTML hex reference | ⏪ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ⪠|
| alias | rewind |
| alias | fast backwards |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 6.0 (2010) | |
| BLACK LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE TRIANGLE | |
| — | |
| Miscellaneous Technical | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Black Left-Pointing Double Triangle | |
| ✘ | |
| Black Left-Pointing Double Triangle | |
| Black Left-Pointing Double Triangle | |
| ✘ | |
| Black Left-Pointing Double Triangle | |
| Black Left-Pointing Double Triangle | |
| Black Left-Pointing Double Triangle | |
| Black Left-Pointing Double Triangle | |
| Black Left-Pointing Double Triangle | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| Black Left-Pointing Double Triangle | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Black Left-Pointing Double Triangle | |
| Yes | |
| Black Left-Pointing Double Triangle | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Black Left-Pointing Double Triangle | |
| None | |
| wide | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Black Left-Pointing Double Triangle | |
| U |