U+1F87B "🡻" Wide-Headed Downwards Heavy Barb Arrow Unicode Character

U+1F87B "🡻" Wide-Headed Downwards Heavy Barb Arrow is a typographic symbol within the Dingbats block, designed as a bold, downward-pointing arrow featuring a thick, wide head and stylized barbs or fletching along its shaft. This character is primarily used in graphic design, user interface elements, and technical documentation to indicate a strong downward direction, decrease, or movement, often serving as a more visually emphatic alternative to standard arrow symbols. It was added to the Unicode Standard as part of version 7.0 in 2014, expanding the set of decorative and directional icons available for digital text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F87B
Version Added	7.0
Name	Wide-Headed Downwards 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 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDC7B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F87B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udc7b

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