North West Pointing Leaf refers to an ornamental leaf-shaped Unicode symbol concept associated with the broader set of decorative dingbat characters discussed around the 2014 Unicode and emoji-expansion era. It was not approved as a standard emoji with colorful emoji presentation like common nature emojis, but it belongs to the kind of pictographic symbol that communities sometimes noticed when looking through proposed, legacy, or newly encoded Unicode characters. As an emoji candidate concept, it would likely have been understood as a directional leaf, a botanical pointer, or a decorative flourish rather than a conversational facial expression or everyday object emoji.
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This emoji was one of the "suggested emojis" the Unicode group unveiled in June 2014 [article], however, it has been, and still is, up to the companies who support emoji in their operating systems to provide not only images but also an algorithm to replace the emoji code into the emoji image.
