What means
It fills cells 1, 2, and 8 in an eight-part tile.
Each character cell holds eight numbered rectangles in a 24 grid. This one fills the top pair and bottom-right cell. These patterns are semigraphics: coarse pixels that combine into pictures, borders, or charts.
By 1984, Kaypro's graphics set used the pattern for low-resolution images. Unicode later preserved it for compatibility with older character sets, letting text mosaics travel as text.
Why does this glyph show as a box?
Its font or terminal may not include a drawing for it.
A terminal is an app for command-line text. On 2026-09-28, Ghostty and Kitty displayed the block-mosaic set; xterm.js and urxvt did not. Without support, this character may appear blank or as a missing-glyph box.
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Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- semigraphics · mosaic character · 2×4 mosaic · Kaypro graphics · text-mode graphics · block mosaic
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜵳\1CD73Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.