What means
It is a tile in an eight-cell block mosaic.
The digits in its name identify the six filled cells in a two-column, four-row grid. In Kaypro graphics, pixel positions could be set within each character; neighboring patterns could form a picture across the screen.
A guide to the Kaypro 10, an early personal computer, documents this method in 1983. Unicode's mapping links this pattern to the Kaypro character set, preserving a tile from early computer graphics.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box?
The font or app may not include a glyph for it. As of 2026, Kitty and libvte-based terminals support octant characters; in other apps, display depends on font coverage.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- Kaypro graphics · text graphics · terminal graphics · semigraphics · character graphics · pixel mosaic · pixel block · text-mode art
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𜷆CSS
\1CDC6Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜷆
HTML hex
𜷆
CSS content
content: "\1CDC6";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B7%86
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On screen
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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.