U+1F857 "🡗" South West Sans-Serif Arrow Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F857 "🡗" South West Sans-Serif Arrow is a typographic symbol that represents a direction pointing diagonally down and to the left, designed with clean, simple lines and no decorative serifs. It belongs to the Supplemental Arrows C block, a set of arrow symbols used for technical diagramming, mathematical notation, or user interface design where a minimalist and modern arrow style is preferred. This specific arrow directionally opposes the more common northeast arrow, offering a clear and unambiguous way to indicate a southwestern trajectory in maps, flowcharts, or directional systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F857 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | South West 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 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDC57 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F857 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udc57 |
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 |