U+1FB16 "🬖" Block Sextant-45 Unicode Character

U+1FB16 "🬖" Block Sextant-45 is a symbol from the Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplementary block, representing a specific pattern used in early computer graphics, particularly in the Sextant system which employed a 2x3 grid of subcells. This character graphically fills the lower left two cells and the upper right two cells of that sixcell block, while leaving the remaining two positions empty, creating a checkerboardlike appearance. It was standardized in Unicode version 13.0 to preserve historical bitmap font and display methods from the 1970s and 1980s computing era.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FB16
Version Added	13.0
Name	Block Sextant-45
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 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDF16
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FB16
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udf16

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