U+1FB6C "🭬" Left Triangular One Quarter Block Unicode Character

U+1FB6C "🭬" Left Triangular One Quarter Block is a specialized symbol from the Symbols for Legacy Computing block, designed to represent a left-aligned triangular shape that occupies approximately one quarter of a standard character cell. It is typically used in retro computing contexts, such as emulating pixel graphics on text terminals or in bitmap font representations where precise quarter cell blocks are needed to construct larger images or decorative borders. This character helps maintain backward compatibility with old display systems and encoding schemes that relied on geometric block elements for visual output.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FB6C
Version Added	13.0
Name	Left Triangular One Quarter Block
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 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDF6C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FB6C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udf6c

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