U+1F656 "🙖" Turned North East Pointing Leaf Unicode Character

U+1F656 "🙖" Turned North East Pointing Leaf is a stylized, symbolic representation of a leaf rotated to point toward the upper right, which places it within the broader category of decorative dingbats rather than a literal botanical image. It is part of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block, often used in typography and digital design for its ornamental or directional qualities, such as indicating emphasis, embellishing text, or subtly suggesting movement or orientation toward the northeast. The glyph does not commonly appear in standard text but serves as a specialized iconographic element in certain contexts like maps, diagrams, or stylized cultural artifacts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F656
Version Added	7.0
Name	Turned North 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 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDE56
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F656
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\ude56

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