Heavy Teardrop-Shanked Rightwards Arrow ➻
Symbol Meaning
Once upon a time, a hundred years ago, there lived a man in Germany. His name was Hermann Zapf. For a long time he was fond of typography and fonts, until he turned 60 and realised that working only with text wasn't enough for him. So he started creating various glyphs, such as this heavy teardrop-like arrow. Instead of feathers it has an odd fat tail, as if it swallowed an elephant or a Mcdonald's burger. The English name “Teardrop-Shanked” suggests that this tail is actually a tear.
I have no idea why this symbol was encoded in Unicode. It looks ridiculous, doesn't it? Another sign pointing to the right, which there is plenty of. so I'm sure you'll be able to find a more beautiful one. For example, in our arrow collection.
The symbol “Heavy Teardrop-Shanked Rightwards Arrow” is included in the “Dingbat arrows” subblock of the “Dingbats” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Heavy Teardrop-Shanked Rightwards Arrow |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Dingbats |
| Unicode Subblock | Dingbat arrows |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 27BB |
| Simple case change | 27BB |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9E BB | 226 158 187 | 14851771 | 11100010 10011110 10111011 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 BB | 39 187 | 10171 | 00100111 10111011 |
| UTF-16LE | BB 27 | 187 39 | 47911 | 10111011 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 BB | 0 0 39 187 | 10171 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 10111011 |
| UTF-32LE | BB 27 00 00 | 187 39 0 0 | 3139895296 | 10111011 00100111 00000000 00000000 |
