U+1FB29 "🬩" Block Sextant-346 Unicode Character

U+1FB29 "🬩" Block Sextant-346 is an abstract symbol belonging to the Symbols for Legacy Computing Unicode block, specifically part of the “block sextant” subrange that encodes graphical components once used in vintage terminal and teletext displays. This particular glyph represents a configuration where three of the six segments in a sextant cell are filled, forming a pattern that corresponds to a binary or numeric mapping, specifically four since the filled segments are the bottom left, bottom middle, and bottom right positions. While rarely used in modern text, it serves as a digital artifact for preserving retro computing graphics and terminal character sets.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FB29
Version Added	13.0
Name	Block Sextant-346
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 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDF29
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FB29
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udf29

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