U+1FB36 "🬶" Block Sextant-1456 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🬶
U+1FB36 "🬶" Block Sextant-1456 is a visual symbol belonging to the Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement block, which was designed to represent graphic patterns used in early computer and terminal systems. This particular character depicts a specific arrangement of filled and empty cells within a six-cell grid, known as a sextant, and its numerical suffix 1456 indicates which of the 64 possible sextant patterns it corresponds to. It is primarily used in retrocomputing contexts, terminal emulation, or textual art where precise block-based graphics from historical computing standards need to be accurately encoded.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FB36 |
| Version Added | 13.0 |
| Name | Block Sextant-1456 |
| 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 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDF36 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001FB36 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udf36 |
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 |