How does one go from a Unicode character to its description?

Question

I came across this cute little symbol today:

Answer 1

If you just want to know the glyph name, head on over to CodePoints (or Graphemica or probably any one of a dozen other sites) and do a search on it. I'm not sure which lookup services you used "to no avail" but those two have no issues in locating it.

Doing so with