What means
It is a six-cell pattern within an eight-cell tile.
The digits name the filled cells in a two-column, four-row grid.
Kaypro home computers running CP/M (an operating system) used octants as chunky pixels for text-screen drawings in the early 1980s; the characters could also be stored in text files. Kaypro's normal-display set assigned this exact tile code FE, and Unicode preserves the pattern as a character. Adjacent tiles make larger pictures or borders.
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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.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- kaypro graphics · kaypro symbols · 2x4 graphics · text-mode graphics · block mosaic · terminal graphics
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜶩\1CDA9𜶩; x marks the number as hexadecimal (base 16).\u{1CDA9}; the braces let one escape hold more than four hexadecimal digits.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.