U+1FB26 "🬦" Block Sextant-46 Unicode Character

U+1FB26 "🬦" Block Sextant-46 is a graphic symbol within the Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplementary block, specifically designed to represent a sextant pattern used in early text-based computer graphics and terminal displays. It depicts a block divided into six triangular sections, with four of those sections filled to create a specific visual segment, and it is primarily intended for compatibility with historical systems that used such characters to draw borders, menus, or forms. This character belongs to a set that emulates the graphic cells found in teletext and early microcomputer character sets, preserving the visual language of pre-GUI computing interfaces.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FB26
Version Added	13.0
Name	Block Sextant-46
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 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDF26
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FB26
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udf26

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