U+1F653 "🙓" South East Pointing Leaf Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🙓
U+1F653 "🙓" South East Pointing Leaf is a symbolic glyph within the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block, depicting a stylized leaf shape oriented toward the lower right corner, or southeast direction. This character is part of a set of leaf pointing symbols that likely originated in APL or technical notation for indicating directionality or branching in diagrams, though it is rarely used in modern text. Due to its limited inclusion in standard fonts and low frequency of use, it often displays as a placeholder box or an unrecognized symbol on many systems, making it more of a niche typographic curiosity than a practical communication tool.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F653 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | South East Pointing Leaf |
| Block | Ornamental Dingbats |
| 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 0x99 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDE53 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F653 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\ude53 |
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 |