Turned South East Pointing Leaf refers to a decorative leaf-shaped Unicode symbol concept that has been associated with the broader set of ornamental dingbats and legacy font symbols discussed during the emoji-expansion era. It was not approved as a standard, fully supported emoji with colorful platform artwork, and it is best understood as a symbol or proposed emoji-style candidate rather than an official Apple-style emoji. The idea fits the 2014-era Unicode conversation around whether certain pictographic dingbats, arrows, leaves, ornaments, and Webdings/Wingdings-like symbols should be usable in modern text systems. People may have wanted it as a decorative divider, a nature-themed pointer, a seasonal flourish, or a softer alternative to arrow symbols.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
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.