U+1F8BB "🢻" South West Arrow from Bar Unicode Character

U+1F8BB "🢻" South West Arrow from Bar is a typographic symbol within the Unicode Arrows B block, representing an arrow that points diagonally down and to the left, originating from a perpendicular bar or vertical line at its start. This glyph is used in technical notation, cartography, diagrams, and specialized text to indicate a specific directional movement or transformation that begins with a fixed point or barrier. Unlike standard arrows, the inclusion of the bar adds a distinct meaning, often signifying a constraint, blockage, or reversible operation in fields like logic, mathematics, or flowcharts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F8BB
Version Added	16.0
Name	South West Arrow from 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 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDCBB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F8BB
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udcbb

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