U+1FB90 "🮐" Inverse Medium Shade Unicode Character

U+1FB90 "🮐" Inverse Medium Shade is a graphic symbol belonging to the Symbols for Legacy Computing block, which was added in Unicode version 13.0 in 2020 to represent visual elements from retro computer and terminal interfaces. It specifically depicts a medium density of inverted shading, appearing as a roughly 50% filled square where the lighter pattern is the background, designed for use in text based user interfaces or pixel art to create a balanced contrast. This character helps modern digital texts faithfully reproduce the appearance of older display systems, such as those from early home computers and videotex systems, that used block shading to simulate grayscale effects.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FB90
Version Added	13.0
Name	Inverse 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 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDF90
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FB90
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udf90

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