U+1FBED "🯭" Bottom Left Justified Upper Right Quarter Black Circle Unicode Character

U+1FBED "🯭" Bottom Left Justified Upper Right Quarter Black Circle is a specialized symbol within the Symbols for Legacy Computing block, representing a black circle occupying only the upper right quarter of its bounding box, while its alignment is described as bottom left justified. This character was introduced in Unicode version 13.0 in 2020 to provide precise graphical elements for emulating vintage computer terminals, teletext systems, and other historical display technologies that used block-based graphics. It is distinct from a simple quarter circle because its encoding specifically defines the shape's position and orientation, making it useful for recreating pixelated or mosaic-style imagery where each tile must be individually addressable.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FBED
Version Added	16.0
Name	Bottom Left Justified Upper Right Quarter 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 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDFED
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FBED
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\udfed

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