How to: Bar Chart: Data Labels with Font Awesome Icon

[Steve99-sys]

Hi experts,
I'm using the great ApexChart for quite a while.
Now I want to have data labels within a bar with font awesome icons.
But I don't know how to achieve this.
This is my code so far, but only a rectangle is displayed.

    dataLabels: {
        enabled: true,
        offsetY: 0,
        style: {
            fontSize: '25px',
            colors: ['#111'],
            fontFamily: 'Font Awesome 5 Free',
            fontWeight: 900,
        },
        
        formatter: function (val, opt) {
            return "\u{F70C}";
            // return "0xF70C";
            // return String.fromCodePoint(0xF70C);
            // return '<i class="fas fa-running"></i>';
        },
        

What can I do?
TIA Stephan

[ducknificient]

any update ? thanks