U+1F879 "🡹" Wide-Headed Upwards Heavy Barb Arrow Unicode Character

U+1F879 "🡹" Wide-Headed Upwards Heavy Barb Arrow is a typographic symbol classified in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block, designed to represent a thick, upward pointing arrow with a wide triangular head and small backward facing barbs on each side of its shaft. It is intended for use in digital text, diagrams, maps, or user interfaces to signify a strong or emphatic upward direction, movement, or increase, distinct from simpler arrow characters due to its heavier weight and barbed details. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent rendering across platforms for specialized notation or decorative purposes in plain text environments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F879
Version Added	7.0
Name	Wide-Headed Upwards Heavy 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 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDC79
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F879
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udc79

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