U+1F5EC "🗬" Left Thought Bubble Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F5EC "🗬" Left Thought Bubble is a typographic symbol included in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, designed to represent a rounded bubble with a tail pointing to the left, typically used in comics or digital messaging to indicate an inward or reflective thought. Its formal name distinguishes it from similar bubble symbols by specifying the direction of the tail, suggesting that it is intended for contexts where a character’s unspoken idea or internal dialogue is directed toward the left side of a visual layout. While less commonly used than its standard counterpart, the speech bubble, this character serves as a structured, encoded option for displaying a thought bubble in plain text without relying on custom graphics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F5EC |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Left Thought Bubble |
| 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 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDDEC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F5EC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\uddec |
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 | Ideographic |
| 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 |