html-entity

←

←

HTML named character reference ← maps to U+2190.

Mapping

Named reference
←
Code point(s)
U+2190
Decimal
8592
Characters

Numeric character references

Named
Decimal
Hex

Usage

Prefer a named reference when the character must survive encoding mistakes or is awkward to type. Numeric references (←) are always valid HTML for the mapped code point(s).

Related

Source

Unicode
16.0.0
WHATWG
snapshot 2026-08-02