U+1FBA6 "🮦" Box Drawings Light Diagonal Middle Left to Lower Centre to Middle Right Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1FBA6 "🮦" Box Drawings Light Diagonal Middle Left to Lower Centre to Middle Right is a specialized symbol within the Box Drawing block, designed for creating technical diagrams and text-based visual layouts. It depicts a continuous line that starts from the middle left edge of its character cell, descends diagonally to a lower central point, and then ascends diagonally to the middle right edge, forming a shallow, symmetrical V or chevron-like shape. This character is intended to represent a unique, non-rectilinear connector or joint between horizontal and diagonal segments, often used in detailed ASCII or Unicode art to draw curved or angled pathways in grid-based schematics. Its addition to the Unicode standard, specifically in version 13.0, expanded the toolkit for precise line drawing in plain text environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+1FBA6
Version Added 13.0
Name Box Drawings Light Diagonal Middle Left to Lower Centre to Middle Right
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 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD83E 0xDFA6
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001FBA6
C/C++/Java Escape \ud83e\udfa6

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