U+1F87F "🡿" Wide-Headed South West Heavy Barb Arrow Unicode Character

U+1F87F "🡿" Wide-Headed South West Heavy Barb Arrow is a specialized symbol within the Unicode standard, part of the Supplemental Arrows-C block, that depicts a thick or heavy arrowhead pointing to the southwest direction. Its design features a particularly broad and prominent barbed head, distinguishing it from simpler arrow symbols by emphasizing weight and clarity in directional indication. This character is primarily used in technical diagrams, maps, user interface design, or academic contexts where a bold, unambiguous southwest-pointing arrow is required, often to denote movement, flow, or orientation with visual emphasis.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F87F
Version Added	7.0
Name	Wide-Headed South 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 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDC7F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F87F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udc7f

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