U+1FB1A "🬚" Block Sextant-345 Unicode Character

U+1FB1A "🬚" Block Sextant-345 is a symbol within the Symbols for Legacy Computing block, specifically designed to represent a filled quadrant in a sextant grid, where three of the six possible triangular segments are filled. This character is part of a set used for emulating graphical display patterns from early computer systems, allowing the creation of blocky shapes by combining such sextant-encoded cells. Its name indicates a particular arrangement of filled and empty sections, following a mapping scheme that identifies which segments are active.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FB1A
Version Added	13.0
Name	Block Sextant-345
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 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDF1A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FB1A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udf1a

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