U+1F870 "🡰" Wide-Headed Leftwards Medium Barb Arrow Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F870 "🡰" Wide-Headed Leftwards Medium Barb Arrow is a specialized typographic symbol that belongs to the Supplementary Arrows-C block and is used primarily in technical texts, diagrams, or notation systems to indicate a directional flow or movement towards the left. Its design features a wide triangular head combined with a medium-length shaft and a barb, distinguishing it from simpler arrow shapes. This character finds application in fields such as cartography, mathematics, and computer science where precise visual representation of direction or process mapping is required, and it can be included in digital text through appropriate font support or Unicode-compliant software.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F870 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Wide-Headed Leftwards Medium 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 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDC70 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F870 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udc70 |
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 |