U+1FB94 "🮔" Left Half Inverse Medium Shade and Right Half Block Unicode Character

U+1FB94 "🮔" Left Half Inverse Medium Shade and Right Half Block is a special glyph from the Symbols for Legacy Computing block, designed to represent a two-tone rectangular cell where the left half displays a medium shade of gray in inverse (typically appearing as a lighter shade on a dark background) and the right half is a solid black block. This character is primarily used for retro computing graphics, terminal emulation, or text-based art, allowing precise construction of gradients or pixel-like patterns in monochrome or limited color displays. Its combination of an inverse medium shade on one side and a solid block on the other offers a specific visual contrast useful for simulating halftone textures or designing character-based interfaces.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FB94
Version Added	13.0
Name	Left Half Inverse Medium Shade and Right Half Block
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 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDF94
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FB94
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udf94

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