U+1FB8F "🮏" Lower Half Medium Shade Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

🮏
Source: Noto Sans Symbols 2 Source: Browser Default

U+1FB8F "🮏" Lower Half Medium Shade is part of the Symbols for Legacy Computing block, representing a rectangular block filled with a medium density pattern on its lower half. This character is used in text based graphics and terminal interfaces to create shaded visual effects, particularly for simulating depth or partial illumination in retro computing and pixel art. Its design resembles a half filled cell with a 50 percent shade, aligning with other block shading characters in Unicode.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+1FB8F
Version Added
13.0
Name
Lower Half Medium Shade
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 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD83E 0xDF8F
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0001FB8F
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud83e\udf8f

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