What means
It lights three cells in an eight-cell graphics tile. The grid has two columns and four rows. Kaypro semigraphics made these tiles act like chunky pixels; neighboring characters could form larger drawings.
A Kaypro manual from 1984 documents this two-by-four system. The Unicode character standard maps this tile to code 8B in Kaypro’s normal set, preserving the original graphic in text.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does show as an empty box?
The active font may lack this glyph. Microsoft added all octants to Cascadia Code 2404.03 in April 2024; choose a font with octant support.
How to type
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1CD02, then Alt+X to get .
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “block octant-123”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1cd02, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜴂CSS
\1CD02Word
Type 1CD02 in Word, then press Alt+X. Some French and German editions use Alt+C (checked 2026-09-28).
GNOME/GTK
Press Ctrl+Shift+U, type 1cd02, then Enter (checked 2026-09-28).
macOS
Unicode Hex Input stops at four digits; use Character Viewer for this code (checked 2026-09-28).
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜴂
HTML hex
𜴂
CSS content
content: "\1CD02";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B4%82
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.