U+27A8 HEAVY CONCAVE-POINTED BLACK RIGHTWARDS ARROW

The Unicode character U+27A8, officially named HEAVY CONCAVE-POINTED BLACK RIGHTWARDS ARROW, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Dingbats block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as HEAVY CONCAVE-POINTED BLACK RIGHT ARROW.

Categorized technically as a Other Symbol, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.