U+1F8A8 "🢨" Leftwards Back-Tilted Shadowed White Arrow Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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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

Code Point U+1F8A8
Version Added 7.0
Name Leftwards Back-Tilted Shadowed 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 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD83E 0xDCA8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001F8A8
C/C++/Java Escape \ud83e\udca8

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