U+1F544 "🕄" Notched Right Semicircle with Three Dots Unicode Character

U+1F544 "🕄" Notched Right Semicircle with Three Dots is a somewhat obscure symbol included in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, originally conceived as a candidate for use in astronomical or astrological contexts, though it has seen little mainstream adoption. Its design features a right-facing semicircle with a small notch removed from its straight edge, accompanied by three dots aligned vertically or along that edge, which may have been intended to represent a celestial body or a specific point in space. In practice, the character often serves as a decorative or placeholder icon in digital applications, and it may be used in niche hobbyist contexts such as tabletop gaming or symbolic diagrams.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F544
Version Added	7.0
Name	Notched Right 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 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDD44
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F544
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udd44

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