U+1FB61 "🭡" Upper Left Block Diagonal Lower Centre to Upper Right Unicode Character

U+1FB61 "🭡" Upper Left Block Diagonal Lower Centre to Upper Right is a symbol belonging to the Symbols for Legacy Computing block, designed to represent a specific pixel pattern from old computer graphics and terminal displays. Its shape is a diagonal line or block segment that begins at the upper left corner, cuts through the center of the character cell, and ends at the upper right corner, effectively filling the upper half of the cell while leaving the lower portion empty. This glyph was part of a set used in bitmap-based interfaces and text-mode graphics to create borders, shading, and simple geometric shapes. The character’s name precisely describes the path of its diagonal edge from the lower centre to the upper right, anchored at the upper left as a starting point for the filled area.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FB61
Version Added	13.0
Name	Upper Left Block Diagonal Lower Centre to Upper Right
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 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDF61
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FB61
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udf61

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