What means
In Word, enter the Unicode hex value and press Alt+X.
If another hexadecimal letter or digit touches the code, select only the code before pressing Alt+X; otherwise Word may convert the longer string.
What does block octant 1235 do?
It fills cells 1, 2, 3, and 5 in a 24 tile.
The Kaypro II character set used patterns like this as coarse pixels on a text screen: arrange tiles side by side to build larger images. This is semigraphics, a way to make pictures inside a fixed character grid.
Kaypro II character charts place this octant family in the early 1980s. In 2021, Unicode's proposal gave legacy character charts systematic names, since original machine charts often showed the glyphs without naming each pattern.
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1Why does show as a box in some terminals?
As of 2026, support differed in tested terminal emulators: Ghostty and VTE displayed all block-octant mosaics, while urxvt and xterm.js displayed none. A missing-glyph box points to renderer support; the character itself has not changed.
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- octant · semigraphics · pseudographics · pixel · mosaic · kaypro · terminal · textmode
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜴏\1CD0FCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.