U+1F82C "🠬" Leftwards Triangle-Headed Arrow with Heavy Shaft Unicode Character

U+1F82C "🠬" Leftwards Triangle-Headed Arrow with Heavy Shaft is a specialized typographic symbol included in the Supplemental Arrows-C block, designed for technical documentation, diagrams, and mathematical notation where distinct directional arrows are required. It features a bold, triangular arrowhead pointing to the left attached to a thick, heavy stem, visually emphasizing a strong leftward movement or indication. Unlike common arrows, this character is typically used in contexts that demand clear visual differentiation, such as in flowcharts, educational materials, or software interfaces, and it is supported in Unicode version 7.0 released in 2014.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F82C
Version Added	7.0
Name	Leftwards Triangle-Headed Arrow with Heavy 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 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDC2C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F82C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udc2c

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