U+1FB80 "🮀" Upper and Lower One Eighth Block Unicode Character

U+1FB80 "🮀" Upper and Lower One Eighth Block is a graphic symbol designed for representing partial blocks in text and terminal displays, specifically depicting a solid rectangle that occupies both the top and bottom one-eighth segments of its character cell, leaving the central three quarters empty. It belongs to the Symbols for Legacy Computing block, which standardizes many characters originally used in vintage computer systems, teletext, and early graphical interfaces. This particular block character is often employed in creating visual patterns, progress bars, or mosaic art within plain text environments, leveraging its unique proportion to fill space in a way that no single eighth-block or quarter-block character can achieve alone.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FB80
Version Added	13.0
Name	Upper and Lower One Eighth 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 0xAE 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDF80
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FB80
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udf80

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