U+1F864 "🡤" Wide-Headed North West Light Barb Arrow Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🡤
U+1F864 "🡤" Wide-Headed North West Light Barb Arrow is a typographic symbol from the Supplemental Arrows C block, designed to represent a directional indicator with a broad, open arrowhead pointing toward the upper left or north west direction. Its “light barb” design suggests a thinner stroke and a more delicate appearance compared to heavier arrow variants, making it useful in diagrams, user interfaces, or documentation for indicating a specific diagonal movement or orientation. This character adds to the rich set of arrow symbols in Unicode, providing precision for visual communication in digital and printed text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F864 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Wide-Headed North West Light Barb 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 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDC64 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F864 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udc64 |
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 |