U+2BA6 "⮦" Leftwards Triangle-Headed Arrow with Long Tip Downwards Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⮦
U+2BA6 "⮦" Leftwards Triangle-Headed Arrow with Long Tip Downwards is a typographical symbol that combines a triangular arrowhead pointing to the left with an elongated, downward-angled tail, creating a directional glyph often used in diagrams, maps, or technical documentation to indicate a path that moves left and then descends. It belongs to the Supplemental Arrows-C block, a set of specialized arrow characters intended for uses where standard arrows lack sufficient nuance or where a specific combined direction must be clearly communicated without relying on additional text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2BA6 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Leftwards Triangle-Headed Arrow with Long Tip Downwards |
| 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 0xAE 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2BA6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002BA6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2ba6 |
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 |