What means
It marks the filled parts of one text cell.
An octant has two columns and four rows. In , positions 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8 are filled; 2 and 5 are open. Neighboring cells form the image.
Octants on Kaypro computers trace to graphics-capable models from 1984; each 2-by-4 tile plotted part of a drawing and could be saved in a text file. Teletext and France’s Minitel used related six-cell mosaics. Gnuplot’s 6.0 manual also documents an octants mode for terminal plots.
A technical tile for low-resolution text and terminal art.
In terminals, this may appear as a missing-glyph box: as of 2026, support varies across apps and fonts.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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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
- octant · block octant · terminal graphics · text graphics · text mosaic
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜷘\1CDD8Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.