U+1F844 "🡄" Leftwards Heavy Arrow Unicode Character

U+1F844 "🡄" Leftwards Heavy Arrow is a typographic symbol from the Supplemental Arrows C block, designed to represent a thick, bold arrow pointing to the left. Its heavy weight makes it particularly suitable for use in signage, diagrams, user interface icons, or printed material where extra visual emphasis is needed to indicate a backward direction, a return, or a previous step. Unlike lighter arrow variants, this character is intended to stand out clearly, ensuring legibility and strong directional signaling even at smaller sizes or in contexts with limited contrast.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F844
Version Added	7.0
Name	Leftwards Heavy 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 0xA1 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDC44
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F844
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udc44

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