U+1FB8F "🮏" Lower Half Medium Shade Unicode Character

U+1FB8F "🮏" Lower Half Medium Shade is part of the Symbols for Legacy Computing block, representing a rectangular block filled with a medium density pattern on its lower half. This character is used in text based graphics and terminal interfaces to create shaded visual effects, particularly for simulating depth or partial illumination in retro computing and pixel art. Its design resembles a half filled cell with a 50 percent shade, aligning with other block shading characters in Unicode.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FB8F
Version Added	13.0
Name	Lower 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 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDF8F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FB8F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udf8f

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