U+1F8A0 "🢠" Leftwards Bottom-Shaded White Arrow Unicode Character

U+1F8A0 "🢠" Leftwards Bottom-Shaded White Arrow is part of the Supplemental Arrows-C block, which was added to the Unicode Standard to provide additional directional symbols beyond the basic arrow sets. This specific glyph depicts an arrow pointing to the left, rendered as a white or open outline shape with a darker or shaded fill concentrated along the bottom edge of the arrowhead. Its design allows it to convey a sense of direction while incorporating a subtle shading effect that may be used for emphasis, visual layering, or decorative purposes in digital text, diagrams, or user interfaces.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F8A0
Version Added	7.0
Name	Leftwards Bottom-Shaded White 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 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDCA0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F8A0
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udca0

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