U+1FB9F "🮟" Lower Left Triangular Medium Shade Unicode Character

U+1FB9F "🮟" Lower Left Triangular Medium Shade is part of the Symbols for Legacy Computing supplement block, representing a geometric shading pattern used in retro computer graphics and text mode interfaces. This character depicts a triangular shape covering the lower left portion of a square cell, filled with a medium density of shading to create a subtle gradient or textured effect. It was added to Unicode in 2022 as part of an effort to preserve the visual character sets of vintage computing systems, where such partial and graded blocks were commonly used for pseudo graphics, borders, and simple image rendering in environments with limited display capabilities.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FB9F
Version Added	13.0
Name	Lower 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 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDF9F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FB9F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udf9f

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