U+1FBE4 "🯤" Upper Centre One Quarter Block Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🯤
U+1FBE4 "🯤" Upper Centre One Quarter Block is a typographical symbol that represents a small square block filling the upper central quarter of its character cell, specifically occupying the top half and the middle two quarters horizontally. It is part of the Symbols for Legacy Computing supplement block, designed to emulate the graphic characters used in early computer systems and text mode displays. This character is often employed for pixel art, retro interface design, or as a shading element in monospace text to create visual patterns. It belongs to a larger set of block and quadrant symbols that allow precise control over the filled area of a character space without requiring images or complex formatting.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FBE4 |
| Version Added | 16.0 |
| Name | Upper Centre One Quarter Block |
| 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 0xAF 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDFE4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001FBE4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udfe4 |
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 |