 Although the term "backspace" is the traditional name of the key which deletes the character to the left of the cursor, the actual key may be labeled in a variety of ways, for example "delete", "Erase" (for example in One Laptop Per Child), or with a left pointing arrow.A dedicated symbol for "backspace" exists as U+232B ⌫ but its use as a keyboard label is not universal.The backspace is distinct from the delete key, which in paper media for computers would punch out all the holes to strike out a character, and in modern computers deletes text "following" it.