If imagined in Apple/iOS-style concept art, the candidate would probably have resembled a mirrored version of the familiar cartoon rocket: a white or silver rocket body with red fins, a round blue window, and orange-yellow exhaust flames trailing to the right as the nose points left. No official Apple or Unicode design is known for a separate Leftwards Rocket emoji, so such imagery should be understood as conceptual rather than a released platform design. As a lost or unapproved emoji idea, it remains an example of how users often wanted more directional control and narrative flexibility from emoji beyond the single standardized rocket symbol.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was one of the "suggested emojis" the Unicode group unveiled in June 2014 [article], however, it has been, and still is, up to the companies who support emoji in their operating systems to provide not only images but also an algorithm to replace the emoji code into the emoji image.
