U+1FB83 "🮃" Upper Three Eighths Block Unicode Character

U+1FB83 "🮃" Upper Three Eighths Block is a graphic symbol belonging to the Symbols for Legacy Computing block, which was added in Unicode 13.0 to support older computer terminal and teletext graphics. It represents a solid rectangular block that fills the top three eighths of its character cell, leaving the bottom five eighths empty. This character is part of a set of partial block elements historically used for creating rudimentary bar charts, shading, and visual effects in text mode interfaces, and it can be employed today in retro computing contexts or for decorative text formatting.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FB83
Version Added	13.0
Name	Upper Three Eighths 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 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDF83
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FB83
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udf83

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