The fast reverse button is the digital rewind key: two bold left-pointing triangles that scream take it back now, y’all. On Apple/iOS, it appears as crisp white double triangles set on a rounded blue tile, a sleek media-player vibe that feels like you just found the remote. No vertical line, no extra symbols—just that instantly recognizable double-arrow look that used to live on cassette decks and VCRs. It’s the visual equivalent of a DJ scratch and a VHS tape whirring in reverse.
Online, people drop this emoji when they want to backtrack a convo, revisit a topic, or hint at “oops, can we rewind that message?” It’s big for nostalgia posts, throwback clips, and any moment where you’d kill for a 10‑second skip-back button in real life. Sarcastically, it doubles as the moonwalk-out-of-this-situation emoji—beep-beep like a reversing truck when a chat goes sideways. You’ll also see it in meme captions about time travel do-overs, cringey takes you wish you could undo, or playful flirting like let’s rewind to your last selfie. Paired with play or pause icons, it reads like DIY subtitles for your life’s blooper reel.
Definition
A blue button with media quick rewind logo. Double Play button to the left. iEmoji old name: Blue Square Button Rewind.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
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.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
1250 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
:rewind:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Black Left-Pointing Double Triangle
Left-Pointing Double Triangle
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Technical
Unicode Range
2300–23FF
Unicode Subcategory
User Interface Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Abstract Concepts
Unicode Subcategory
User Interface Symbols
Names & Annotations
BLACK LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE TRIANGLE = fast rewind
Symbol Information
U+23EA proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-AFF
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[<<]
KDDI
#7 左向き三角２ 「左向ki三角２」 U+E52F SJIS-F74B JIS-772C
Softbank
#388 #old241 巻き戻し 「巻ki戻shi」 U+E23D SJIS-F7DD
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)
23ea
Formal Unicode Notation
U+23EA
Decimal Code Point(s)
9194
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE2 0x8F 0xAA
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 8F AA
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
342 217 252
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0x23EA
UTF-16 Hex
23ea
UTF-16 Dec
9194
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x000023EA
UTF-32 Hex
23EA
UTF-32 Dec
9194
Python Src
u"\u23EA"
PHP Src
"\xe2\x8f\xaa"
C/C++/Java Src
"\u23EA"
Emoji Code Version
iOS 18 - 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)
23ea, fe0f
Formal Unicode Notation
U+23EA, U+FE0F
Decimal Code Point(s)
9194, 65039
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE2 0x8F 0xAA, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 8F AA, EF B8 8F
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
342 217 252, 357 270 217
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0x23EA, 0xFE0F
UTF-16 Hex
23ea, fe0f
UTF-16 Dec
9194, 65039
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x000023EA 0x0000FE0F
UTF-32 Hex
23EA, FE0F
UTF-32 Dec
9194, 65039
Python Src
u"\u23EA\uFE0F"
PHP Src
"\xe2\x8f\xaa\xef\xb8\x8f"
C/C++/Java Src
"\u23EA\uFE0F"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
