What means
It is one piece of a text-grid drawing. An octant is a character split into two columns and four rows. On Kaypro, software used its patches as coarse pixels, so adjoining text cells could build a larger picture.
By 1984, a Kaypro II user was building a paint program from these screen cells. As of 2026, a terminal demo shows octant pixel art and compact bar charts—the hardware workaround now doubles as an intentional text-art style.
Part of the collection
Related characters
1
Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box on some devices?
It is recent: Unicode added it in version 16.0 (2024), and phones and computers whose fonts are older than that have nothing to draw it with. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
More like this
10
How to type or find
- Search it as
- octant · semigraphics · 2×4 pixel grid · kaypro graphics · terminal pixel art
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𜵀CSS
\1CD40Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜵀
HTML hex
𜵀
CSS content
content: "\1CD40";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B5%80
1
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.