U+1F880 "🢀" Wide-Headed Leftwards Very Heavy Barb Arrow Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F880 "🢀" Wide-Headed Leftwards Very Heavy Barb Arrow is a symbol within the Unicode Standard's Supplemental Arrows-C block, designed for advanced typographic, cartographic, and diagrammatic use. Its name describes a leftward-pointing arrow with an exceptionally thick or bold shaft and a wide, triangular arrowhead featuring barbs or spurs at the base, distinguishing it from simpler arrow symbols. This character encodes a specific visual weight and direction, allowing it to represent strong backward movement, retreat, or high emphasis in technical manuals, flowcharts, and digital interfaces where conventional arrows might lack sufficient visual impact.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F880 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Wide-Headed Leftwards Very 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 0xA2 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDC80 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F880 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udc80 |
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 |