U+1FB38 "🬸" Block Sextant-12456 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🬸
U+1FB38 "🬸" Block Sextant-12456 is a graphic symbol from the Symbols for Legacy Computing block, specifically designed to represent a sextant pattern used in early computer graphics and terminal displays. This character depicts a filled block occupying the top half and the bottom left quadrant of the glyph cell, corresponding to a unique combination of segments that were historically employed in character-based interfaces for creating visual approximations of shapes or diagrams. Its encoding ensures that modern systems can faithfully reproduce such legacy graphic elements, preserving the aesthetic and functional accuracy of vintage computing outputs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FB38 |
| Version Added | 13.0 |
| Name | Block Sextant-12456 |
| 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 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDF38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001FB38 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udf38 |
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 |