U+1FB76 "🭶" Horizontal One Eighth Block-2 Unicode Character

U+1FB76 "🭶" Horizontal One Eighth Block-2 is a graphic symbol belonging to the Symbols for Legacy Computing block, which represents a horizontal block segment that fills one eighth of the width of a character cell, specifically positioned as the second of eight sequential horizontal slices. This character is used to create low-resolution visual representations, such as in retro computing interfaces or text-based graphics, by combining with other similar block elements to form continuous horizontal lines or gradients. It occupies a single Unicode code point and is part of a standardized set designed to emulate old computer display systems where precise horizontal subdivisions were needed for crude pixel art or character-based shading.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FB76
Version Added	13.0
Name	Horizontal One Eighth Block-2
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 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDF76
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FB76
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udf76

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