U+1F83E "🠾" Rightwards Compressed Arrow Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🠾
U+1F83E "🠾" Rightwards Compressed Arrow is a specialized typographic symbol belonging to the Supplemental Arrows C block, designed to represent an arrow that appears horizontally condensed or squashed compared to a standard rightwards arrow. Its visual form features a shorter shaft with the arrowhead pushed closer to the tail, often used in diagrams, mathematical notations, or technical illustrations to indicate movement, direction, or compression in a limited space. Despite its less common appearance, it serves a precise function in conveying a specific spatial relationship where a typical long arrow would be visually inappropriate or misleading.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F83E |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Rightwards Compressed 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 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDC3E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F83E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udc3e |
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 |