U+27BA "➺" Teardrop-Barbed Rightwards Arrow Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+27BA "➺" Teardrop-Barbed Rightwards Arrow is a decorative typographic symbol belonging to the Dingbats block, specifically designed to indicate direction with an ornamental flair. Its design features a distinctive teardrop-shaped barb or serif on the arrow's tail, differentiating it from standard arrows and making it suitable for use in diagrams, wayfinding, or stylized lists where a more elaborate visual cue is desired. While it retains a functional arrow meaning, its primary purpose is artistic or aesthetic, often employed in printed materials or digital content to add a touch of elegance or playfulness to directional indicators.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+27BA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Teardrop-Barbed Rightwards Arrow |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Teardrop-Barbed 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 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x27BA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000027BA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u27ba |
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 |