U+1CCA4 "𜲤" Left Half Flying Saucer Unicode Character

U+1CCA4 "𜲤" Left Half Flying Saucer is a rarely used glyph belonging to the Symbols for Legacy Computing supplement, a block designed to encode retro computer terminal and teletext graphics from the 1970s and 1980s. This character represents the left half of a specific mosaic pattern, likely intended for constructing larger pixelated or blocky shapes, such as a stylized flying saucer, in character-based displays where horizontal division of a cell allowed crude bitmap imaging. Its inclusion in Unicode preserves historic computing environments where such half-block characters served as building blocks for simple graphics and user interface elements.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1CCA4
Version Added	16.0
Name	Left Half Flying Saucer
Block	Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𜲤
HTML Hex Encoding	𜲤
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9C 0xB2 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD833 0xDCA4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001CCA4
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud833\udca4

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other