U+1CDF8 "𜷸" Down-Pointing Airplane Unicode Character

U+1CDF8 "𜷸" Down-Pointing Airplane is a recently encoded symbol within the Unicode Standard's Supplementary Multilingual Plane, added as part of a collection of historical and decorative transport icons. Its design depicts an aircraft oriented downward, which is thought to represent a diving or landing airplane, possibly used in early aviation diagrams, amusement park signage, or decorative artifacts from the early 20th century. This character helps preserve a specific graphic motif that may have been employed in ephemeral printed materials or industrial designs, showing Unicode's ongoing effort to digitize rare and culturally significant symbols from various domains.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1CDF8
Version Added	16.0
Name	Down-Pointing Airplane
Block	Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𜷸
HTML Hex Encoding	𜷸
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9C 0xB7 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD833 0xDDF8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001CDF8
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud833\uddf8

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other