U+1F8AA "🢪" Leftwards Front-Tilted Shadowed White Arrow Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F8AA "🢪" Leftwards Front-Tilted Shadowed White Arrow is a specialized arrow symbol that was added in Unicode version 14.0 as part of the "Supplemental Arrows-D" block, used to define a white arrow pointing left with a three-dimensional shadow effect and a slight forward tilt. It is primarily intended for use in technical notation, cartographic mapping, or signage systems where a distinct, nonstandard directional indicator is needed to convey nuanced spatial orientation or visual depth. This character is not commonly found in everyday text but serves a precise role in specialized document layouts or icon sets that require an element with a subtle, shaded, and angled appearance.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F8AA |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Leftwards Front-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 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDCAA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F8AA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udcaa |
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 |