U+1F887 "🢇" Wide-Headed South West Very Heavy Barb Arrow Unicode Character

U+1F887 "🢇" Wide-Headed South West Very Heavy Barb Arrow is a specialized directional symbol from the block of "Supplemental Arrows-C," designed to represent a very thick, bold arrow pointing to the bottom-left (southwest) with a broad arrowhead and prominent backward-facing barbs. Its heavy weight sets it apart from standard arrows, making it suitable for high-visibility purposes like maps, diagrams, signage, or user interfaces where a clear, strong diagonal direction must be emphasized. This character is part of a family of similarly styled arrows added in Unicode 7.0 to meet typographic and design needs for more pronounced or aggressive pointing symbols.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F887
Version Added	7.0
Name	Wide-Headed South 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 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDC87
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F887
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udc87

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