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U+1F5A1 CHARACTER

SIDEWAYS BLACK DOWN POINTING INDEX

Quick Facts

Unicode Name SIDEWAYS BLACK DOWN POINTING INDEX
Code Point U+1F5A1
Decimal Value 128417
General Category Other Symbol (So) →
Unicode Block Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 7.0 →
Unicode Plane Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 4 bytes F0 9F 96 A1
UTF-16 Surrogate Pair D83D DDA1
High: U+D83D (\uD83D) Low: U+DDA1 (\uDDA1)
UTF-32 4 bytes 0001F5A1
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: D8 3D DD A1 LE: 3D D8 A1 DD
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 01 F5 A1 LE: A1 F5 01 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal 🖡
HTML Hexadecimal 🖡
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \01F5A1
JavaScript (ES6) \u{1F5A1}
JavaScript (UTF-16) \uD83D\uDDA1
JSON Escape \uD83D\uDDA1
Python \U0001F5A1
PHP "\u{1F5A1}"
Java "\uD83D\uDDA1"
C / C++ "\U0001F5A1"
Rust '\u{1f5a1}'
URL Percent-Encoded %F0%9F%96%A1

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0 โ€” Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class ON โ€” Other Neutral
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+1F5A1 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
๐Ÿ–ก
Context: A ๐Ÿ–ก Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
๐Ÿ–ก
Context: A ๐Ÿ–ก Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
๐Ÿ–ก
Context: A ๐Ÿ–ก Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
๐Ÿ–ก
Context: A ๐Ÿ–ก Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name SIDEWAYS BLACK DOWN POINTING INDEX

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+1F5A1

Related Characters & Collections

๐Ÿ–ก
Curated Symbol Collection Curated in CopyCharacter's SIDEWAYS BLACK DOWN POINTING INDEX symbol library.
View Symbol โ†’