U+1FB2D "🬭" Block Sextant-56 Unicode Character

U+1FB2D "🬭" Block Sextant-56 is a symbol from the Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplementary block, designed to represent a specific pattern of filled and empty cells within a six-segment grid arrangement known as a sextant. This particular character displays the first five cells in the top and middle rows as filled black squares, while all other cells remain empty, creating a distinctive visual block used for legacy computer graphics and text-based interfaces. Its inclusion in Unicode preserves the graphical vocabulary of early computing systems, where such characters were essential for drawing pixelated shapes and diagrams.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FB2D
Version Added	13.0
Name	Block Sextant-56
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 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDF2D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FB2D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udf2d

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