What 🙐 means
It is a typographic ornament for setting off text. Printers used fleurons—small leaf- or flower-shaped designs—to mark a pause, finish a section, fill an empty spot, or decorate an edge. Repeating them can frame a heading or make a clear break.
“Northwest” describes the corner of the drawing. This exact Unicode character maps to source glyph w-1209 in Wingdings, a symbol font; that font family was designed in 1990–91.
Why is this leaf in Unicode?
It preserves an ornament as text. Fleurons developed in manuscript decoration and printing. An ivy-leaf mark called a hedera served as a word separator on a Roman inscription around 100 CE; printers later used ivy-leaf forms as ornaments.
Most of these ornaments were encoded for compatibility with the Wingdings and Wingdings 2 symbol fonts; a few came from Webdings. The fleuron family varies on the classic ivy-leaf ornament.
How do I type this leaf symbol?
Type 1F650, then press AltX in Word. In Word for Microsoft 365, 1F650 is the hexadecimal Unicode value. If other hexadecimal text touches it, select only these six digits first; otherwise Word may treat them as one value. Fonts can draw a supported character differently or lack its glyph and show a missing-character box.
An app's Unicode character picker is another option if it can search by name or code. A shortcut from the Wingdings font uses that font's own encoding; this Unicode character is stored separately and can be used in different fonts.
A decorative printing ornament with an old-fashioned, deliberately styled feel.
The northwest angle names the design; it does not tell the reader to turn.
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2Questions people ask
1Is this leaf symbol an emoji?
No. It is treated as a text character, so its appearance depends on font support; a font without the glyph can show a missing-character box.
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How to type or find 🙐
- Also called
- fleuron · printer's flower · leaf ornament
- Search it as
- Wingdings leaf · leaf divider · leaf bullet
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🙐\1F650Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.