U+1F872 "🡲" Wide-Headed Rightwards Medium Barb Arrow Unicode Character

U+1F872 "🡲" Wide-Headed Rightwards Medium Barb Arrow is a graphical symbol used in digital typography and text rendering to represent a pointed arrow that points to the right, featuring a broad, triangular head combined with a single barb on its shaft, distinguishing it from simpler arrow characters. This character belongs to the Supplemental Arrows-B block, which contains various heavy, wide, and barbed arrow designs for technical notation, diagramming, and user interface purposes where clear directional emphasis is needed. Its design makes it useful for indicating movement, progression, or navigation in a visually distinct manner, particularly when a medium weight and barbed aesthetic are preferred over standard filled or hollow arrow shapes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F872
Version Added	7.0
Name	Wide-Headed Rightwards 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 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDC72
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F872
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udc72

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