U+1F850 "🡐" Leftwards Sans-Serif Arrow Unicode Character

U+1F850 "🡐" Leftwards Sans-Serif Arrow is a typographic symbol found in the Supplemental Arrows-C block, designed with a clean, minimalist stroke that lacks the serif embellishments typical of traditional arrow characters. It is intended for use in diagrams, user interfaces, and text documents where a simple, modern leftward direction indicator is needed, often to represent navigation, movement, or a pointing relationship in a sans-serif typeface context. This glyph was added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of version 6.0, providing a consistent digital representation across different platforms and software.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F850
Version Added	7.0
Name	Leftwards Sans-Serif 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 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDC50
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F850
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udc50

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