U+1CE8A "𜺊" Separated Block Sextant-2456 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𜺊
U+1CE8A "𜺊" Separated Block Sextant-2456 is a relatively obscure symbol belonging to the Unicode Standard's block for specialized or legacy computing systems, specifically designed to represent a sextant angle reading in a separated block format for numeric or data visualization contexts. Its name indicates a specific divided shape that visually separates a block into distinct sections, likely used in technical diagrams, early computer graphics, or control panel interfaces where such segmented displays were common. This character's encoding preserves a historical method of representing positional information, allowing modern systems to accurately render or interpret these once-essential visual cues from older hardware designs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1CE8A |
| Version Added | 16.0 |
| Name | Separated Block Sextant-2456 |
| 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 0xBA 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD833 0xDE8A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001CE8A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud833\ude8a |
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 |