U+1F543 "🕃" Notched Left Semicircle with Three Dots Unicode Character

U+1F543 "🕃" Notched Left Semicircle with Three Dots is a symbol classified under the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, though it is rarely used in modern digital communication and may appear as a placeholder or abstract graphic rather than a widely recognized emoji. It depicts a left-facing half-circle with a small notch missing from its arc and three dots arranged vertically inside, a design that some sources suggest originates from old map symbols or astronomical notations, possibly indicating a partial lunar phase or a generic marker for a location or observation point. Despite its obscure nature, this character can be found in legacy encoding systems and serves as a curious artifact of early Unicode efforts to include specialized symbols from various technical and academic domains.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F543
Version Added	6.1
Name	Notched Left Semicircle with Three Dots
Block	Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	🕃
HTML Hex Encoding	🕃
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9F 0x95 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDD43
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F543
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udd43

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	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other