U+1F868 "🡨" Wide-Headed Leftwards Barb Arrow Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F868 "🡨" Wide-Headed Leftwards Barb Arrow is a specialized typographical symbol from the Supplemental Arrows-C block, designed to represent a leftward pointing arrow with a notably broad, triangular arrowhead and a short barb or stem at its base. It is intended for use in technical diagrams, mapping, or mathematical notation where a distinctive, bold directional cue is needed, and it should not be confused with more common or emoji style arrows as it occupies a niche in the Unicode standard for precise symbolic communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F868 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Wide-Headed Leftwards 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 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDC68 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F868 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udc68 |
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 |