U+1FB8C "🮌" Left Half Medium Shade Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+1FB8C "🮌" Left Half Medium Shade is a symbol included in the Symbols for Legacy Computing supplement block, representing a medium density shading pattern that fills the left half of a character cell. It was added to Unicode in 2022 as part of version 15.0, serving as a graphical building block for recreating old monochrome display and text user interface graphics, where such halved shading allowed for more nuanced visual effects in retro computing environments.
General Properties
Code Point
U+1FB8C
Name
Left Half Medium Shade
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
🮌
HTML Hex Encoding
🮌
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x9F 0xAE 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD83E 0xDF8C
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0001FB8C
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud83e\udf8c
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Common