U+1F884 "🢄" Wide-Headed North West Very Heavy Barb Arrow Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F884 "🢄" Wide-Headed North West Very Heavy Barb Arrow is a specialized symbol within the Unicode Standard’s Supplemental Arrows-C block, designed to represent a bold, weighty arrow pointing in the northwest diagonal direction. Its wide, heavy head and prominent barb make it visually distinct from standard arrows, fitting a category of symbols intended for technical diagrams, mapping, and user interface elements where strong directional cues or emphasis are required. This character was added to Unicode in version 7.0 as part of an effort to expand the range of arrow glyphs for precision in documentation and digital communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F884 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Wide-Headed North West 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 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDC84 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F884 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udc84 |
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 |