U+1FB57 "🭗" Upper Left Block Diagonal Upper Middle Left to Upper Centre Unicode Character

U+1FB57 "🭗" Upper Left Block Diagonal Upper Middle Left to Upper Centre is a symbol within the Symbols for Legacy Computing Unicode block, designed to represent a specific pixel or cell pattern from older computer and teletext graphics systems. It depicts a shape that fills the upper left portion of its character cell, cutting diagonally from approximately the upper middle left edge towards the upper centre area, creating a right angled triangular fragment. This character, like others in its block, is used for recreating the visual appearance of vintage bitmap displays, terminal screens, and text based interfaces where precise block shading and corner elements were necessary.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FB57
Version Added	13.0
Name	Upper Left Block Diagonal Upper Middle Left to Upper Centre
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 0xAD 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDF57
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FB57
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udf57

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