U+1F87A "🡺" Wide-Headed Rightwards Heavy Barb Arrow Unicode Character

U+1F87A "🡺" Wide-Headed Rightwards Heavy Barb Arrow is a typographic symbol from the Supplemental Arrows-C block, designed to represent a thick, rightward pointing arrow with a barbed tail and an expanded, heavy arrowhead. Its wide and bold appearance makes it particularly useful in technical diagrams, flowcharts, user interface design, and signage where a strong, unambiguous directional cue is required. Unlike standard arrows, its heavy weight and barbed detail provide a distinct visual emphasis, helping to guide the viewer’s attention or indicate a decisive progression, transition, or outcome in visual communication contexts such as maps, tutorials, or instruction manuals.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F87A
Version Added	7.0
Name	Wide-Headed Rightwards 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 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDC7A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F87A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udc7a

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