U+1FB8C "🮌" Left Half Medium Shade Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🮌
U+1FB8C "🮌" Left Half Medium Shade is a symbol included in the Symbols for Legacy Computing supplement block, representing a medium density shading pattern that fills the left half of a character cell. It was added to Unicode in 2022 as part of version 15.0, serving as a graphical building block for recreating old monochrome display and text user interface graphics, where such halved shading allowed for more nuanced visual effects in retro computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FB8C |
| Version Added | 13.0 |
| Name | Left Half Medium Shade |
| 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 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDF8C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001FB8C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udf8c |
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 |