U+1FB5B "🭛" Upper Left Block Diagonal Lower Left to Upper Centre Unicode Character

U+1FB5B "🭛" Upper Left Block Diagonal Lower Left to Upper Centre is a symbol from the Symbols for Legacy Computing block, designed to represent a specific pixelated diagonal pattern used in retro computing and graphical character sets. This character depicts a filled block shape where the upper left area is solid while a diagonal line cuts from the lower left corner upward to the centre of the top edge, leaving the remaining portion empty. It belongs to a set of mosaic and block drawing characters that were historically employed in early text mode displays, terminal emulators, and simple graphic applications to create visual effects using character cells.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FB5B
Version Added	13.0
Name	Upper Left Block Diagonal Lower 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 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDF5B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FB5B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udf5b

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