U+1F86C "🡬" Wide-Headed North West Barb Arrow Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F86C "🡬" Wide-Headed North West Barb Arrow is a specialized symbol from the Supplemental Arrows-C block, designed to represent an arrow pointing to the upper left with a broad, barbed head. Its primary purpose is to provide a clear, unambiguous directional indicator for use in technical documentation, diagrams, maps, or instructional graphics where standard arrows may lack sufficient visual distinctiveness. The wide head enhances visibility and precision in conveying movement or orientation, particularly in contexts requiring a specific northwest trajectory.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F86C |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Wide-Headed North West 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 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDC6C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F86C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udc6c |
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 |