U+1FB10 "🬐" Block Sextant-15 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1FB10 "🬐" Block Sextant-15 is a typographic symbol in the Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement block, designed to represent a specific pattern of filled and empty segments within a six cell grid, where Sextant 15 corresponds to a unique configuration of those blocks. It belongs to a set of characters used for simulating old computer or terminal text display effects, such as block graphics or character based interfaces, before modern graphical systems became widespread. This particular sextant pattern is one of 64 possible arrangements in the block sextant system, allowing for the creation of coarse pixelated images or fine grained visual distinctions in limited resolution environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FB10 |
| Version Added | 13.0 |
| Name | Block Sextant-15 |
| Block | Symbols for Legacy Computing |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🬐 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🬐 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0xAC 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDF10 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001FB10 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udf10 |
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 |