U+1FBEB "" Left Justified Right Half Black Circle Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1FBEB "" Left Justified Right Half Black Circle is a relatively recent addition to the Symbols for Legacy Computing supplement, added in Unicode 16.0 in 2024, designed to represent a specific graphical semigraphics element used in vintage computer and terminal displays. It depicts a circle where the left half is empty and the right half is filled black, positioned flush to the left edge of the character cell, which allows it to align precisely with other block or half-circle characters for creating textured or divided circular shapes. This character helps preserve and digitally encode the visual layout conventions of early text-based user interfaces and games.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FBEB |
| Version Added | 16.0 |
| Name | Left Justified Right Half Black Circle |
| 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 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDFEB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001FBEB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udfeb |
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 |