What means
On GNOME, press CtrlShiftU, type 1CDE0, and press Space.
What does block octant 1235678 mean?
It fills seven of eight cells in a text-mode graphic tile.
An octant divides one character cell into two columns and four rows. This pattern fills cells 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8, leaving cell 4 empty. In Kaypro graphics, neighboring tiles act as pixels for rough text-mode pictures.
A Kaypro 10 user's guide from 1983 describes using that 24 grid as independently controlled pixels. Unicode—the shared character system that lets text travel between computers—gives this machine-specific drawing tile a portable text form for file conversion and emulation.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does this block octant show as a box in my terminal?
The selected font may not include its glyph. As of September 2026, terminal support still differs: some emulators draw legacy-computing glyphs themselves, while other setups depend on font coverage.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- semigraphics · kaypro graphics · block graphics · unicode hex input · 2×4 graphics · pixel tile
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜷠\1CDE0Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.