U+1F886 "🢆" Wide-Headed South East Very Heavy Barb Arrow Unicode Character

U+1F886 "🢆" Wide-Headed South East Very Heavy Barb Arrow is a specialized typographic and cartographic symbol that represents an arrow pointing in the southeast direction, distinguished by its exceptionally thick, heavy stroke and a wide, barbed arrowhead designed for high visibility in technical diagrams, maps, or signage. It belongs to the Supplemental Arrows-C block of Unicode, which includes various heavy and wide arrow variants intended for precise directional notation in digital and print contexts. The character’s design emphasizes robustness and clarity over aesthetic refinement, making it particularly useful for conveying strong, unambiguous directional cues in environments where standard arrows might be too subtle or small to read effectively.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F886
Version Added	7.0
Name	Wide-Headed South East 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 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDC86
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F886
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udc86

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