U+1F660 "🙠" North West Pointing Bud Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F660 "🙠" North West Pointing Bud is a symbol that belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, representing a stylized bud shape oriented towards the upper left direction. It is part of a set of directional bud symbols, which are often used in decorative or ornamental contexts, such as in maps, signage, or design elements to indicate a specific orientation or to serve as a placeholder pointer. Despite its inclusion in the Unicode standard, its practical use in modern digital communication is rare, and it is not commonly supported across all fonts and platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F660 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | North West Pointing Bud |
| 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 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDE60 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F660 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\ude60 |
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 |