What means
They made text cells draw like coarse pixels. A 1983 Kaypro 10 guide shows programs drawing pixels with 24 character cells.
Semigraphic means text used as pixels. Unicode carried this grid idea forward, and neighboring tiles can join into a larger picture.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Combination ideas
1Designed motif: repeating tiles makes a coarse texture strip.
Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box?
A fallback box means the font or app cannot draw the glyph. The text can still contain .
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- mosaic graphics · pixel blocks · semigraphics · terminal graphics · text-mode art · kaypro graphics
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𜶕CSS
\1CD95How to type block octant in Word
Type
1CD95 and press AltX. Supported versions: Word 2016, 2019, 2021, 2024, Microsoft 365. Use a font containing the glyph if it does not render.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜶕
HTML hex
𜶕
CSS content
content: "\1CD95";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B6%95
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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.