U+2B09 "⬉" North West Black Arrow Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⬉
U+2B09 "⬉" North West Black Arrow is a directional symbol depicting a solid black arrow pointing diagonally towards the upper left, representing the northwest cardinal orientation. It belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block and is commonly used in mapping, navigation interfaces, and diagrammatic layouts to indicate movement, wind direction, or positional relationships. This character provides a straightforward visual cue for northwest alignment in digital text and graphical systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2B09 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | North West Black Arrow |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⬉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⬉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xAC 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2B09 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002B09 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2b09 |
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 |