⁓ 25C0 FE0E  text style ⁓ 25C0 FE0F  emoji style

Information

People drop it when they want a do-over: to retract a spicy take, “unsend” a text in spirit, or say “rewind that tea, I missed the setup.” It pops up playfully in captions like “reverse reverse” (very Cha Cha Slide), and in meme mode to hint at Tenet-style time tricks without the Nolan-level brain knot. In chats it can be flirty—“take back that goodbye, I wasn’t finished 😏”—or chaotic—“backing out of this convo, I hear red flags beeping.” Music posts use it to mean hopping back a song or replaying that one lyric you pretended not to care about.

Not the UNO Reverse Card (different joke, different look), but it still beams big “Control‑Z my life” energy. Think of it as the play button’s laid-back cousin, a calm way to say “back it up.”

Design-wise, it’s a single left-pointing triangle. On Apple devices, that shows up as a sharp white arrowhead centered on a glossy, gradient royal-blue rounded square—straight-on view, no artsy angle—basically the same media control you’d tap to go back a step. The one-triangle face is how you know it’s not the rewind button ⏪ with two triangles, or the previous track button ⏮️ with double triangles plus a bar.

Definition

A blue button with a play media button to the left. This would either be rewind or play or go back. iEmoji old name: Blue Square Button Play Backwards.

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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.

1. This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
2. In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
3. The code generated for this emoji was changed slightly in iOS 7 / OSX 10.9 (a variation selector was added) advising the OS to display character emoji style instead of black and white text when available. We don't mind Apple, thank you! We just love our emojis! [Sources 11438-emoji-var.pdf 13.7 Variation Selectors (unicode.org)]

Emoji General Information

Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)	954 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture	Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name	:arrow_backward:
Keywords
Previous Names:	Black Left-Pointing Triangle Left Pointing Triangle (Play Backwards)

Unicode Category Information

Unicode Category	Geometric Shapes
Unicode Range	25A0–25FF
Unicode Subcategory	Geometric Shapes

Proposed Unicode Information & Notes

Unicode Category	Abstract Concepts
Unicode Subcategory	User Interface Symbols
Names & Annotations	BLACK LEFT-POINTING TRIANGLE = ARIB-9249 Temporary Notes: Reverse
Symbol Information	◀ U+25C0 unified (Unicode 1.1)
Proposal Identifier	e-AFD

Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes

DoCoMo	[<]
KDDI	#5 左向き三角１ 「左向ki三角１」 U+E52D SJIS-F749 JIS-772A
Softbank	#386 #old239 戻る 「戻ru」 U+E23B SJIS-F7DB

Emoji Character Encoding Data

Emoji Code Version	iOS 5 Code
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)	◀
UTF-8 Character Count	1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)	◀
Decimal HTML Entity	◀
Hexadecimal HTML Entity	◀
Hex Code Point(s)	25c0
Formal Unicode Notation	U+25C0
Decimal Code Point(s)	9664
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xE2 0x97 0x80
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	E2 97 80
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	342 227 200
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0x25C0
UTF-16 Hex	25c0
UTF-16 Dec	9664
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x000025C0
UTF-32 Hex	25C0
UTF-32 Dec	9664
Python Src	u"\u25C0"
PHP Src	"\xe2\x97\x80"
C/C++/Java Src	"\u25C0"

Emoji Code Version	iOS 7 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)	◀️
UTF-8 Character Count	2
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)	◀️
Decimal HTML Entity	◀ ️
Hexadecimal HTML Entity	◀ ️
Hex Code Point(s)	25c0, fe0f
Formal Unicode Notation	U+25C0, U+FE0F
Decimal Code Point(s)	9664, 65039
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xE2 0x97 0x80, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	E2 97 80, EF B8 8F
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	342 227 200, 357 270 217
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0x25C0, 0xFE0F
UTF-16 Hex	25c0, fe0f
UTF-16 Dec	9664, 65039
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x000025C0 0x0000FE0F
UTF-32 Hex	25C0, FE0F
UTF-32 Dec	9664, 65039
Python Src	u"\u25C0\uFE0F"
PHP Src	"\xe2\x97\x80\xef\xb8\x8f"
C/C++/Java Src	"\u25C0\uFE0F"

Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)