U+1FB84 "🮄" Upper Five Eighths Block Unicode Character

U+1FB84 "🮄" Upper Five Eighths Block is a symbol from the Symbols for Legacy Computing block, designed to represent a visual block that fills the upper five eighths of a character cell, leaving the lower three eighths empty. It is part of a set of partial block drawing characters used in text-based user interfaces, terminal displays, and retro computing contexts to create more precise shading, gradients, or two-tone effects without relying on graphical images. The shape is composed of a solid rectangular area occupying the top 62.5 percent of the em square, useful for applications that need to simulate progress bars, volume meters, or decorative borders in plain text environments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FB84
Version Added	13.0
Name	Upper Five 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 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDF84
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FB84
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udf84

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