What means
It marks vertical hieroglyph columns with left-facing signs.
A hieroglyph is a sign in Ancient Egyptian writing. The side arm shows which way signs face, not the reading direction.
Why combine a down arrow with a left arrow?
Each stroke adds a different layout detail.
The plain ↓ marks columns without a facing direction; covers signs facing right. This is editorial notation, not an ancient hieroglyph.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
2
Related characters
4
Rightwards Arrow From Downwards Arrow
The paired marker for columns with right-facing hieroglyphs.
Downwards Arrow
Marks vertical columns when sign-facing direction is unspecified.
Leftwards Arrow
Used for horizontal rows with left-facing hieroglyphs in the same notation.
Rightwards Arrow
In the same Egyptological notation, the matching mark for horizontal rows of right-facing signs.
Combination ideas
2Both column marks: one for left-facing signs, one for right-facing.
Column and row marks for left-facing hieroglyphs.
Questions people ask
1Does the arrow show reading direction?
Not by itself. It points toward the signs’ faces. Left-facing signs read left to right within each group, but separate columns may be reversed.
More like this
13
How to type or find
- Search it as
- egyptology · hieroglyphs · columns
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
🣀CSS
\1F8C0HTML
Use the HTML character reference
🣀.JavaScript
Write
\u{1F8C0} inside a JavaScript string.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🣀
HTML hex
🣀
CSS content
content: "\1F8C0";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%A3%80
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.