U+1F5D8 "🗘" Clockwise Right and Left Semicircle Arrows Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1F5D8 "🗘" Clockwise Right and Left Semicircle Arrows is a symbol consisting of two opposing semicircular arrows, one pointing clockwise and the other pointing counterclockwise, typically used to indicate a recycling or rotating process. It is often associated with concepts of renewal, refresh, or cyclical movement, similar in function to a reload or rotate icon in user interfaces. This character belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and is intended for use in digital text, though its adoption across platforms varies, with some systems rendering it as a simple empty circle or omitting it entirely.

General Properties

Code Point U+1F5D8
Version Added 7.0
Name Clockwise Right and Left Semicircle Arrows
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 0x97 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD83D 0xDDD8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001F5D8
C/C++/Java Escape \ud83d\uddd8

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