U+27A8 "➨" Heavy Concave-Pointed Black Rightwards Arrow Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
➨
U+27A8 "➨" Heavy Concave-Pointed Black Rightwards Arrow is a typographic symbol used in digital text to indicate direction, movement, or progression. Its design features a thick, bold arrowhead with concave inner curves pointing to the right, making it distinct from standard arrow symbols. This character is commonly found in diagrams, user interfaces, and instructional materials where emphasis on a forward or onward action is needed. It belongs to the Dingbats Unicode block, which includes various ornamental symbols for graphical use in computing and publishing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+27A8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Heavy Concave-Pointed Black Rightwards Arrow |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Heavy Concave-Pointed Black Right Arrow |
| Block | Dingbats |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ➨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ➨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x9E 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x27A8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000027A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u27a8 |
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 |