What means
A seven-cell tile for computer graphics.
The name lists its filled cells: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. An octant splits one character cell into two columns and four rows.
A 1983 manual for the Kaypro 10, an early personal computer, documents 2-by-4 block graphics. Kaypro computers running CP/M, an operating system, could store such tiles in text files as on/off pixels. Unicode calls the eight-cell grid an “octant,” by analogy with the four-part “quadrant” and six-part “sextant.”
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does this symbol show as a box?
Your font may lack the glyph. Microsoft announced on 2024-04-30 that Cascadia Code added support for the octant set.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- semigraphics · pixel art · text graphics · computer graphics
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𜷣CSS
\1CDE3GTK 4 text fields
As of 2026-09, press
Ctrl+Shift+U, type 1CDE3, then press Enter.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
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HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\1CDE3";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B7%A3
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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.