U+1F659 "🙙" South West Pointing Vine Leaf Unicode Character

U+1F659 "🙙" South West Pointing Vine Leaf is a rarely used symbol from the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, specifically representing a stylized leaf that points toward the southwest direction. It belongs to a set of eight directional vine leaf characters (U+1F652 through U+1F659) which were included in Unicode 7.0 in 2014, though they saw limited adoption compared to more common emoji. The design typically depicts a single leaf with a curved stem, oriented diagonally, and its primary intended use was for decorative map symbols, ornamental typography, or as a graphic element in digital contexts where directional foliage imagery was needed. Despite its technical availability, the character remains obscure and is not supported by all platforms or fonts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F659
Version Added	7.0
Name	South West Pointing Vine 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 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDE59
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F659
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\ude59

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