U+1F8A8 "🢨" Leftwards Back-Tilted Shadowed White Arrow Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1F8A8 "🢨" Leftwards Back-Tilted Shadowed White Arrow is a typographic symbol classified under the Dingbats block, representing a left-pointing arrow with a three-dimensional shadow effect and a slight backward tilt, giving it a sense of depth and motion. Its design features a hollow white arrowhead set against a shadowed base, which distinguishes it from simpler arrow glyphs by adding a decorative or stylistic emphasis. This character is primarily used in digital graphics, signage, or user interface elements where visual hierarchy or directional cues require a more ornamental or weighted appearance, rather than in plain text or formal writing. Although it is part of the Unicode standard, its actual display depends on the font and platform support, and it may appear as a blank or placeholder in environments lacking appropriate coverage.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
🢨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
🢨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x9F 0xA2 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD83E 0xDCA8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0001F8A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud83e\udca8 |
Unicode Properties