U+1F81C "🠜" Heavy Leftwards Arrow with Large Equilateral Arrowhead Unicode Character

U+1F81C "🠜" Heavy Leftwards Arrow with Large Equilateral Arrowhead is a specialized typographic symbol belonging to the Supplemental Arrows C block, designed for use in diagrams, technical documentation, and user interface designs where a bold, heavy directional indicator is required. Its distinctively thick shaft and large triangular head provide strong visual emphasis, making it particularly useful for highlighting leftward movement, navigation, or pointing in contexts where standard arrows might be too subtle. This character, encoded in 2010 as part of Unicode 6.0, serves as a precise tool for conveying directionality with greater weight and clarity in digital text and print layouts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F81C
Version Added	7.0
Name	Heavy Leftwards Arrow with Large 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 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDC1C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F81C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udc1c

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