U+1F87C "🡼" Wide-Headed North West Heavy Barb Arrow Unicode Character

U+1F87C "🡼" Wide-Headed North West Heavy Barb Arrow is a typographic symbol belonging to the Supplemental Arrows-C block, designed to represent a thick, visually prominent arrow pointing in the northwest diagonal direction with a wide, barbed arrowhead. It is primarily intended for use in technical diagrams, maps, or user interface elements where a bold, unambiguous directional indicator is needed, particularly when standard arrows may be too thin or lack sufficient visual weight. This character is part of a larger set of heavy barb arrows that provide emphasis and clarity in both digital and print contexts, ensuring the direction is easily distinguishable at small sizes or in dense information displays.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F87C
Version Added	7.0
Name	Wide-Headed North West 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 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDC7C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F87C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udc7c

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