Anticlockwise Downwards And Upwards Open Circle Arrows
Block: Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
- Symbol
- 🔄
- Unicode
U+1F504- Unicode name
- ANTICLOCKWISE DOWNWARDS AND UPWARDS OPEN CIRCLE ARROWS
- Block
- Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
- Category
- Symbol, Other
- Type
- Unicode symbol
Anticlockwise Downwards And Upwards Open Circle Arrows (🔄) is encoded as U+1F504 and has the formal Unicode name ANTICLOCKWISE DOWNWARDS AND UPWARDS OPEN CIRCLE ARROWS. Unicode classifies it as Symbol, Other in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block. The code point is the stable identifier when fonts, copy-and-paste, or surrounding context make the glyph ambiguous.
How Context Narrows the Meaning of 🔄
🔄 is encoded as U+1F504 and classified as Symbol, Other.
The Unicode identity and the surrounding document answer different questions: the code point tells you which character is present, while the surrounding formula, interface, document, or notation system determines the local interpretation. Keeping those layers separate prevents a visual guess from being treated as a character definition.
Not the symbol you were looking for? Use what is this 🔄 symbol? to identify another mark from pasted text, Unicode, or visual appearance.
Digital Representations of U+1F504
U+1F504 = decimal 128260 = HTML 🔄 / 🔄. A Unicode escape-style form is u{1F504}. Its UTF-8 bytes are F0 9F 94 84.
Use these identifiers in markup, source code, exports, or character diagnostics when the glyph alone is not enough.
Rendering Changes, Unicode Identity Does Not
Unicode defines the character or sequence, but the visual artwork comes from the font, emoji set, and rendering system. As a result, shape, color, proportions, and detail can vary without changing the encoded identity.
For identification, compare code points and sequence data rather than expecting pixel-for-pixel consistency. This is especially important for emoji and symbols whose presentation is highly stylized by platforms.