U+1CE90 "" Upper Left One Sixteenth Block Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1CE90 "" Upper Left One Sixteenth Block is a symbol used in digital typography and text rendering to represent the upper left corner of a square that has been divided into sixteen equal smaller squares, occupying one sixteenth of the total block area. It belongs to the Symbols for Legacy Computing block, which was created to encode graphic characters originally used in early computer systems and terminal interfaces for creating simple visual layouts, borders, and shaded regions. This character, like others in its set, serves a specialized purpose in preserving the appearance of vintage text-based graphics or in modern contexts where precise partial block fills are needed for diagrams or monospace art.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1CE90 |
| Version Added | 16.0 |
| Name | Upper Left One Sixteenth Block |
| 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 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD833 0xDE90 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001CE90 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud833\ude90 |
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 |