U+1FB91 "🮑" Upper Half Block and Lower Half Inverse Medium Shade Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

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Source: Noto Sans Symbols 2 Source: Browser Default

U+1FB91 "🮑" Upper Half Block and Lower Half Inverse Medium Shade is a specialized symbol within the Symbols for Legacy Computing block, designed for creating text-based graphics and retro computing interfaces. It combines an upper half block with a lower half that features an inverse medium shade, allowing for precise pixel-level control in character cell rendering. This glyph helps represent a transition between a solid upper area and a partially shaded lower area, enabling the construction of gradients, textured fills, or visual effects in terminal displays, vintage software, or monochrome screens. Its inclusion in Unicode preserves the visual language of earlier computing systems, making it useful for emulators, design work, or documentation that requires authentic, block-based graphics.

General Properties

Code Point
U+1FB91
Name
Upper Half Block and Lower Half Inverse Medium Shade

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
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HTML Hex Encoding
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UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x9F 0xAE 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD83E 0xDF91
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0001FB91
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud83e\udf91