Upper Half Medium Shade

Group: Shapes & blocks

Keywords

shapes

About this character

Upper Half Medium Shade belongs to the Shapes & blocks group and is encoded at U+1FB8E. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+1FB8E
Hex: 1FB8E
Decimal: 129934
HTML: 🮎
CSS: \1FB8E
JavaScript: \u{1FB8E}
Python: \U0001FB8E
UTF-8: F0 9F AE 8E

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Block Sextant-1 U+1FB00 Similar
Block Sextant-2 U+1FB01 Similar
Block Sextant-12 U+1FB02 Similar
Block Sextant-3 U+1FB03 Similar
Block Sextant-13 U+1FB04 Similar
Block Sextant-23 U+1FB05 Similar
Block Sextant-123 U+1FB06 Similar
Block Sextant-4 U+1FB07 Similar
Block Sextant-14 U+1FB08 Similar
Block Sextant-24 U+1FB09 Similar
Block Sextant-124 U+1FB0A Similar
Block Sextant-34 U+1FB0B Similar
Block Sextant-134 U+1FB0C Similar
Block Sextant-234 U+1FB0D Similar
Block Sextant-1234 U+1FB0E Similar
Block Sextant-5 U+1FB0F Similar
Block Sextant-15 U+1FB10 Similar
Block Sextant-25 U+1FB11 Similar
Block Sextant-125 U+1FB12 Similar
Block Sextant-35 U+1FB13 Similar
Block Sextant-235 U+1FB14 Similar
Block Sextant-1235 U+1FB15 Similar
Block Sextant-45 U+1FB16 Similar
Block Sextant-145 U+1FB17 Similar

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.