What means
A 24 tile with four cells filled. Semigraphics means making images with small blocks in text characters. Set these tiles side by side, and they form larger low-resolution images.
A 1983 Kaypro 10 manual describes each graphics character as eight addressable pixels in a cell four rows high and two columns wide. Unicode named these eight-part cells “octants” by analogy with “quadrants,” block mosaics in its character set since 1999. As of 2026, terminal image tools also use octants as tiny colored pixels; the set preserves old character data for conversion and emulation.
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Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box?
Your font lacks this glyph; the box is a display fallback, not a different character. Microsoft added octant glyphs to Cascadia Code in April 2024. A font that includes the glyph can display the tile.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- semigraphics · kaypro · textmode · blockgraphics · mosaic · pixel · bitmap · emulator
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜴓\1CD13Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.