U+1F874 "🡴" Wide-Headed North West Medium Barb Arrow Unicode Character

U+1F874 "🡴" Wide-Headed North West Medium Barb Arrow is a typographic symbol used in digital text to represent a directional arrow pointing diagonally toward the top left or northwest quadrant, featuring a broad arrowhead and a barb on its shaft for visual emphasis. It belongs to the Supplemental Arrows C block, which provides specialized arrow symbols for technical documentation, mapping, user interface design, and diagrammatic notations where precise directional cues are needed beyond standard arrow glyphs. This particular arrow is classified as a medium-weight variant with a wide head, distinguishing it from thinner or smaller arrow forms, and it supports clear communication of orientation in contexts such as flowcharts, wayfinding systems, or mathematical diagrams.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F874
Version Added	7.0
Name	Wide-Headed North West 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 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDC74
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F874
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udc74

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