What does ↔️ Left-Right Arrow mean?
A horizontal arrow pointing both left and right. It means two-way: an exchange, a comparison, a swap or a back-and-forth relationship. People place it between two items to show they are connected or interchangeable (“Paris ↔️ London”), and designers use it for width or horizontal resizing. In language chats it links a word to its translation.
↔️ Left-Right Arrow is an emoji from the Symbols category (arrows), added in Emoji 0.6 in 2010.
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↔️ Left-Right Arrow on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Left-Right Arrow looks on each platform.
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How do I copy and paste the Left-Right Arrow emoji?
Press the Copy button at the top of this page and ↔️ is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :left_right_arrow:.
When was the Left-Right Arrow emoji added?
↔️ Left-Right Arrow was added in Emoji 0.6, released in 2010. It is supported on all current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Why does ↔️ look different on my phone?
Every platform draws its own artwork for Left-Right Arrow. The underlying code (U+2194 U+FE0F) is the same everywhere, so the person you send it to always gets the same emoji, just in their device’s style. Compare the designs in the platform section above.