U+1FB9C "🮜" Upper Left Triangular Medium Shade Unicode Character

U+1FB9C "🮜" Upper Left Triangular Medium Shade is a symbol within the Symbols for Legacy Computing block, specifically designed for representing a medium density shading in the upper left triangular portion of a character cell. This character, along with its counterparts for other corners and shade levels, was introduced to emulate the texture and graphical effects found in early bitmap and text mode displays on vintage computers and terminals. Its appearance is that of a solid right-angle triangle occupying the top left quadrant of the bounding box, filled with a medium gray tone, enabling programmers and documenters to precisely recreate retro user interface elements or raster graphics in plain text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FB9C
Version Added	13.0
Name	Upper Left Triangular 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 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDF9C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FB9C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udf9c

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