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Keyboard symbol · An arrow

⇱ Home key symbol

Our drawing, not Apple’s or Microsoft’s artwork.

⇱ is Home: on a Mac it scrolls to the beginning of the document, while on Windows it moves the cursor to the start of the line. The two systems use the key differently, which is the usual surprise.

The symbol
⇱
Name on a Mac
Home (or Fn–Left Arrow)
Name on a Windows PC
Home (Apple states the Mac equivalents)
Unicode
U+21F1 NORTH WEST ARROW TO CORNER
In HTML
⇱
Where the key is
On full-size keyboards, in the editing block between the letters and the number pad. Laptop keyboards leave it out.

What Apple says

  • Fn–Left Arrow Home: Scroll to the beginning of a document. Apple Support, Mac keyboard shortcuts, Fn–Left Arrow, text-editing shortcuts

On a Windows PC

  • Home and End → Command-Left Arrow or Right Arrow, Fn–Left Arrow or Right Arrow On the Mac, press Command-Left Arrow to move the insertion point to the beginning of the current line; press Command-Right Arrow to move the insertion point to the end of the line. Press Fn–Left Arrow (Home) to scroll to the beginning of the current document; press Fn–Right Arrow (End) to scroll to the end of the document. Apple Support (Mac User Guide), Windows keys on a Mac keyboard, table row Home and End
  • Home Move the cursor backward to the beginning of the line. Microsoft Support, Keyboard shortcuts in Windows, Text editing keyboard shortcuts

The character: U+21F1 NORTH WEST ARROW TO CORNER

To type or paste it anywhere, copy this: ⇱. It is U+21F1 in Unicode, named NORTH WEST ARROW TO CORNER, shown in the code chart Unicode Consortium, Code chart: Arrows, U+2190 to U+21FF, U+21F1

The Unicode names list annotates this character: home. Unicode Consortium, NamesList.txt, The Unicode Standard 18.0.0 (character names and annotations), U+21F1

Other symbols of the same shape

⇧ ShiftU+21E7⇪ Caps LockU+21EA⇥ TabU+21E5⏎ ReturnU+23CE⇞ Page UpU+21DE⇟ Page DownU+21DF⇲ EndU+21F2

More keyboard symbols

⌘ CommandU+2318⌥ OptionU+2325⌃ ControlU+2303⎋ EscapeU+238B⌫ Delete (Backspace)U+232B⌦ Forward DeleteU+2326⏏ EjectU+23CF🌐 Fn / GlobeU+1F310

Sources

Each line in quotation marks is copied from the page named, read on the date shown. Unicode names and code points are copied from the Unicode names list and code charts.