U+1F8A6 "🢦" Leftwards Right-Shaded White Arrow Unicode Character

U+1F8A6 "🢦" Leftwards Right-Shaded White Arrow is a typographic symbol belonging to the Arrows block, specifically categorized as an arrow with a shaded or three-dimensional appearance that points to the left while its right side is darkened or shaded, giving it a sense of depth. Its design consists of a white arrowhead with a shading gradient on the right half, contrasting with the lighter left side, which suggests it can represent movement or direction with a decorative or subtle visual emphasis. As a relatively obscure and less commonly used character, it may be applied in specialized digital typography, diagramming, or creative display contexts where a stylized directional cue is desired.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F8A6
Version Added	7.0
Name	Leftwards Right-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 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDCA6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F8A6
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udca6

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