U+1FBAD "🮭" Box Drawings Light Diagonal Middle Right to Upper Centre to Middle Left to Lower Centre Unicode Character

U+1FBAD "🮭" Box Drawings Light Diagonal Middle Right to Upper Centre to Middle Left to Lower Centre is a part of the Symbols for Legacy Computing supplement, designed to represent a complex diagonal line pattern within a single character cell. It depicts a light weight line that begins at the middle right edge of the bounding box, ascends to the upper centre, then descends to the middle left, and finally down to the lower centre, creating a zigzag or nested corner shape. This character is primarily used in technical diagrams, terminal emulators, and retro computing contexts where precise box drawing and line art are needed to form intricate grid based graphics, especially for emulating old computer display systems. Its inclusion in Unicode helps standardize the representation of such geometric patterns across modern text and computing environments without relying on custom fonts or image based solutions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FBAD
Version Added	13.0
Name	Box Drawings Light Diagonal Middle Right to Upper Centre to Middle Left to Lower Centre
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 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDFAD
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FBAD
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udfad

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