U+1FB1F "🬟" Block Sextant-16 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🬟
U+1FB1F "🬟" Block Sextant-16 is a symbol from the Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement block, designed to represent a specific dark or filled segment in a 2x3 sextant grid pattern, where only 16 out of 64 possible patterns are included. This character is historically used in early computer graphics and terminal displays for creating pixelated shapes or diagrams, particularly in systems where characters were employed to draw approximate curves and block-like images.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FB1F |
| Version Added | 13.0 |
| Name | Block Sextant-16 |
| 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 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDF1F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001FB1F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udf1f |
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 |