U+1F8B3 "🢳" Downwards Black Arrow to Bar Unicode Character

U+1F8B3 "🢳" Downwards Black Arrow to Bar is a typographic symbol within the Unicode Arrows Supplement block, depicting a thick or black arrow pointing straight downward that ends with a horizontal bar crossing its shaft, which distinguishes it from a simple downward arrow. This character, assigned to Unicode version 7.0 in 2014, is typically used in signage, diagrams, or technical documentation to indicate a definitive stop, a forced downward action, or a vertical boundary in mapping and layout contexts. Its design conveys a sense of finality or blockage, often serving as a visual cue for a pause, a termination, or a point of arrival in schematic representations.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F8B3
Version Added	16.0
Name	Downwards Black Arrow to Bar
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 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDCB3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F8B3
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udcb3

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