U+1F86B "🡫" Wide-Headed Downwards Barb Arrow Unicode Character

U+1F86B "🡫" Wide-Headed Downwards Barb Arrow is a graphical symbol in the Dingbats block, used to depict a robust downward pointing arrow with a significantly expanded head and a small barb or hook on its shaft. This design distinguishes it from standard down arrows by emphasizing its wide, triangular tip, which often conveys a sense of strong direction, emphasis, or a definitive downward movement in digital text and diagrams. It is typically employed in typographic contexts, user interfaces, or decorative sequences where a bold, attention calling arrow is needed, and it complements other arrows in the same Unicode range for creating directional visual hierarchies without the use of images.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F86B
Version Added	7.0
Name	Wide-Headed Downwards 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 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDC6B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F86B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udc6b

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