U+1F837 "🠷" Downwards Finger-Post Arrow Unicode Character

U+1F837 "🠷" Downwards Finger-Post Arrow is a typographic symbol classified under the Dingbats block, designed to depict a downward pointing arrow with a distinctive forked or "finger post" tail that resembles a directional signpost. This character is typically used in cartography, signage design, or technical documentation to indicate a specific downward direction, often pointing to a location, object, or note below the text. It belongs to a family of finger post arrows which offer a more ornate or explicit directional cue than standard arrow symbols, and it is part of the broader Unicode standard to support graphic representations of signage and wayfinding elements in digital text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F837
Version Added	7.0
Name	Downwards Finger-Post Arrow
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 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDC37
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F837
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udc37

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