What means
It is a tile for drawing Kaypro computer graphics.
In 1984, Kaypro drawing software treated each character position as a 24 pixel patch. Neighboring positions joined into low-resolution drawings.
A 2021 Unicode proposal maps this pattern to Kaypro graphics code E7. It supplied the descriptive octant name because older vendors usually showed these patterns without naming each one.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does this symbol look like an empty box?
The font may lack its glyph. As of 2026, some terminal fonts still omit Unicode 16 octants by default; a font with these glyphs can display it.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- kaypro · kaypro graphics · semigraphics · octant graphics · 2x4 graphics · text graphics
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𜶋CSS
\1CD8BCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜶋
HTML hex
𜶋
CSS content
content: "\1CD8B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B6%8B
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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.