U+1F8A1 "🢡" Rightwards Bottom Shaded White Arrow Unicode Character

U+1F8A1 "🢡" Rightwards Bottom Shaded White Arrow is a typographic symbol belonging to the Supplemental Arrows-C block, designed to provide a directional indicator with a distinctive shading effect. Its design features an open or white arrowhead pointed to the right, with its lower half filled or shaded, creating a visual gradient that suggests depth or a three-dimensional shadow. This character is primarily used in technical documentation, diagrams, or user interface contexts where a nuanced arrow shape is needed to convey direction, progression, or a specific transition without the heavy weight of a fully solid arrow. As part of a larger set of arrows, it helps writers and designers represent complex directional cues in plain text without relying on images or specialized formatting.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F8A1
Version Added	7.0
Name	Rightwards 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 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDCA1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F8A1
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udca1

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