U+1F818 "🠘" Heavy Leftwards Arrow with Equilateral Arrowhead Unicode Character

U+1F818 "🠘" Heavy Leftwards Arrow with Equilateral Arrowhead is a typographic symbol in the Dingbats block, officially classified as an arrow, and features a thick, bold leftward pointing arrow with a triangular tip that is mathematically proportional and equilateral. It is commonly used in digital and print contexts to indicate direction, navigation, or movement to the left, and its heavy weight makes it particularly suitable for visual emphasis in user interfaces, diagrams, or signage where a clear and prominent directional cue is needed.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F818
Version Added	7.0
Name	Heavy Leftwards Arrow with Equilateral Arrowhead
Block	Supplemental Arrows-C
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 0xA0 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDC18
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F818
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udc18

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	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other