What means
It turned one text cell into eight tiny screen pixels.
Kaypro's 1983 guide shows a 24 grid: programs switched on chosen pixels and rendered patterns as text characters.
Part of the collection
Combination ideas
1Designed suggestion: repeat the nearly full tile as a strip in monospaced text art.
Questions people ask
1Why is it an empty box in my editor?
Font support varies. Cascadia Code 2404.03 added all 256 octants; use an octant-capable font.
More like this
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- kaypro · semigraphics · mosaic · octant · textmode · pixel
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𜵰CSS
\1CD70Word for Windows
As of 2026, type
1CD70 without U+ in Word for Windows, then press AltX; some French and German editions use AltC.GNOME / macOS
As of 2026, GNOME uses
CtrlShiftU, then 1CD70, then Enter; macOS's Unicode Hex Input stops at four digits, so use Character Viewer.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
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HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\1CD70";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B5%B0
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.