U+1FB91 "🮑" Upper Half Block and Lower Half Inverse Medium Shade Unicode Character

U+1FB91 "🮑" Upper Half Block and Lower Half Inverse Medium Shade is a specialized symbol within the Symbols for Legacy Computing block, designed for creating text-based graphics and retro computing interfaces. It combines an upper half block with a lower half that features an inverse medium shade, allowing for precise pixel-level control in character cell rendering. This glyph helps represent a transition between a solid upper area and a partially shaded lower area, enabling the construction of gradients, textured fills, or visual effects in terminal displays, vintage software, or monochrome screens. Its inclusion in Unicode preserves the visual language of earlier computing systems, making it useful for emulators, design work, or documentation that requires authentic, block-based graphics.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FB91
Version Added	13.0
Name	Upper Half Block and Lower Half 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 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDF91
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FB91
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udf91

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