U+1F827 "🠧" Downwards Triangle-Headed Arrow with Medium Shaft Unicode Character

U+1F827 "🠧" Downwards Triangle-Headed Arrow with Medium Shaft is a symbol from the Supplemental Arrows-C block, designed to represent a downward direction with a solid triangular head and a medium-length, thin shaft. It is primarily used in technical documentation, diagrams, and user interface designs to indicate movement, progression, or a pointer heading downward, distinct from simpler arrow symbols due to its balanced proportion between the head and shaft. This character helps provide clear directional cues in contexts where standard arrows might be too thick or too thin, making it a precise typographic choice for mapping, flowcharts, or digital signage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F827
Version Added	7.0
Name	Downwards Triangle-Headed Arrow with Medium Shaft
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 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDC27
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F827
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udc27

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