U+1FB28 "🬨" Block Sextant-1246 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🬨
U+1FB28 "🬨" Block Sextant-1246 is a symbol in the Symbols for Legacy Computing block, representing a specific pattern of filled and empty cells within a sextant grid used for visual display on older computer systems. This character encodes the configuration where only the third cell of the second row and the middle cell of the third row are filled, as per the hexadecimal code corresponding to the sextant's six segments. It was added to Unicode to support the faithful representation of text and graphics from historical computing platforms, particularly those with block-based character sets.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FB28 |
| Version Added | 13.0 |
| Name | Block Sextant-1246 |
| 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 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDF28 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001FB28 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udf28 |
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 |