U+1FBC1 "🯁" Left Third White Right Pointing Index Unicode Character

U+1FBC1 "🯁" Left Third White Right Pointing Index is a symbol coded in Unicode’s Symbols for Legacy Computing range, designed to represent a hand or pointer with the left third of its area filled in white and a rightward pointing tip. It belongs to a set of specialized characters used for recreating vintage computer terminals, teletext systems, and early graphical user interfaces where simple directional indicators were needed. This character is not commonly found in everyday modern writing but serves as a precise tool for digital historians, retro computing enthusiasts, and developers simulating old display formats. Its appearance may vary across fonts and platforms, but its core purpose remains to provide a clear, visually sparse arrow for system or interface documentation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FBC1
Version Added	13.0
Name	Left Third White Right Pointing Index
Block	Symbols for Legacy Computing
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 0xAF 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDFC1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FBC1
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udfc1

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