What means
The name lists the seven cells that are filled.
An octant divides a character position into two columns and four rows; this one fills cells 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8, leaving 5 blank. A Kaypro 10 guide from 1983 documents graphics characters as eight-pixel cells for drawing on its text screen. In 2024, Microsoft added all 256 octants to Cascadia Code, so the old tile set can also be used for modern terminal art with that font.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Quadrant Upper Left And Lower Left And Lower Right
A 2×2 block-element mosaic. It belongs to the same text-graphics tradition, but its character cell is divided into four pieces instead of eight.
Block Sextant-1
A block sextant: one of the six-piece mosaics for terminal graphics. Sextants use a 2×3 grid, compared with octants' 2×4.
Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- octant · text graphics · terminal art · pixel block · semigraphics · block mosaic · Kaypro
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𜷚CSS
\1CDDACodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
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HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\1CDDA";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B7%9A
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On screen
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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.