What means
It lights five of the tile’s eight cells.
Kaypro computers used these pixel tiles to plot pictures in text cells. A May 1983 Kaypro 10 guide documents the 2 × 4 grid. Unicode’s 2021 proposal maps this pattern to Kaypro’s normal-mode byte AF for emulator conversion; AF is a legacy code, not the modern Unicode input value.
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4Questions people ask
1why does block octant-12345 show as a box?
Your font or terminal may lack the glyph. As of 2026, Kitty and GNOME Terminal support octants; xterm.js lacks support for the supplement.
How to type
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1CD17, 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-12345”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1cd17, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜴗CSS
\1CD17GTK Unicode hex input
As of 2026, in a GTK text field, press Ctrl+Shift+U, type 1CD17, then Enter.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜴗
HTML hex
𜴗
CSS content
content: "\1CD17";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B4%97
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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.