U+1FBAE "🮮" Box Drawings Light Diagonal Diamond Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1FBAE "🮮" Box Drawings Light Diagonal Diamond is a relatively recent addition to the Unicode Standard, introduced in version 13.0 released in 2020, and belongs to the Symbols for Legacy Computing block. Unlike more common box-drawing characters that form straight lines and right angles, this glyph represents a diamond shape with light, diagonal strokes that cross in the center. Its primary purpose is to aid in the visualization of schematic diagrams, flowcharts, or early computer graphics and terminal interfaces where diagonal connectors are needed to depict branches or junctions in a network. This character helps fill a gap in older text-based rendering systems that previously lacked a straightforward way to express such diagonal intersections without resorting to complex arrangements of other characters.

General Properties

Code Point U+1FBAE
Version Added 13.0
Name Box Drawings Light Diagonal Diamond
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 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD83E 0xDFAE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001FBAE
C/C++/Java Escape \ud83e\udfae

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