U+1FB8E "🮎" Upper Half Medium Shade Unicode Character

U+1FB8E "🮎" Upper Half Medium Shade is a graphical symbol within the Symbols for Legacy Computing and Telephone Functions block, representing a medium level of shading confined to the upper half of its character cell. It is designed for use in text-based user interfaces, terminal emulators, or other legacy computing contexts where halftone or partial shading is needed to create visual effects such as gradients, borders, or textured fills. This character, along with its counterpart for the lower half, allows for more detailed pixel-like rendering in character grid displays without requiring full bitmap graphics. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures compatibility and preservation of historical computer display techniques.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FB8E
Version Added	13.0
Name	Upper 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 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDF8E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FB8E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udf8e

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