What means
It fills five patches in a two-column, four-row character slot. The numbers run left to right, then down: 1, 2, 4, 7, and 8 are filled. A text cell is the fixed-width slot for one character.
Why were octants added to Unicode?
Earlier block-cell graphics entered Unicode in 1991 for compatibility with older computer and terminal character sets. The 2021 proposal included octants in a wider package for legacy-data conversion, emulators, and finer text-mode graphics. Side by side, tiles form a regular grid of tiny on/off patches.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Combination ideas
1Repeating it makes a patterned strip for terminal art.
Questions people ask
1Does this glyph render in every font?
No. Your app needs a font containing octants; Cascadia Code 2404.03 added them in April 2024.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- terminal · mosaic · semigraphics · pixel
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𜶶CSS
\1CDB6Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜶶
HTML hex
𜶶
CSS content
content: "\1CDB6";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B6%B6
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.