U+204C "⁌" Black Leftwards Bullet Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+204C "⁌" Black Leftwards Bullet is a typographic symbol classified in the General Punctuation block, designed as a solid black circle with a leftward pointing triangular tail that visually indicates a backward or left-oriented direction. It is primarily used as a stylistic marker for lists, annotations, or editorial signposts, often serving as a less common alternative to the standard leftward arrow or bullet point in specialized or decorative typesetting. The character has no widely standardized semantic meaning in modern computing, but it can appear in historical or technical texts to denote a preceding item or a backward reference.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+204C |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Black Leftwards Bullet |
| Block | General Punctuation |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⁌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⁌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x81 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x204C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000204C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u204c |
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 |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |