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𜴮

block octant-12356

Block Octant 12356

This block octant is a 2x4 mosaic tile with parts 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 filled. In the early 1980s, Kaypro semigraphics—pictures made from text characters—used such tiles to draw pixel-like images.

Text symbol

What 𜴮 means

It is one piece of character-cell artwork.

On Kaypro computers, software running under CP/M (an early operating system) combined 2x4 tiles to plot pixels in text and draw borders. In a grid with equal-width character cells, each tile acts like a coarse pixel.

Unicode later encoded this character family so newer software could preserve the graphics and emulators—programs that imitate old computers—could display them.

Part of the collection

🬀

Retro Computer & Teletext Symbols

Questions people ask

Why does block octant show as a box?

Font and terminal support varies; as of 2026, Ghostty, kitty, and VTE-based terminals render octant mosaics, while xterm.js and urxvt lack support for the supplement.

How to type or find 𜴮

Search it as: semigraphics · kaypro · 2x4 · text graphics
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

Windows (Word)

⎇Alt+XType 1CD2E, then AltX 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-12356”.

Linux

⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 1cd2e, then Enter or Space.

HTML

𜴮

CSS

\1CD2E

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

𜴮

HTML hex

𜴮

CSS content

content: "\1CD2E";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%F0%9C%B4%AE

On screen

Code points

JS .length

UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

Legacy computing935 symbols

𜰀𜰁𜰂𜰃𜰄𜰅𜰆𜰇𜰈𜰉𜰊𜰋