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𜶚

block octant-13468

Block Octant-13468

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𜶚 is a semigraphic tile—a text character standing in for a small patch of pixels—with five of eight cells filled. Kaypro home computers running CP/M, an early operating system, used octants for text graphics by the early 1980s. Unicode later encoded the set for faithful file conversion and emulators, extending older quadrant blocks into a finer grid.

Text symbol

What 𜶚 means

𜶚 is the block octant-13468. Unicode classifies it as an “other symbol” — Unicode's shelf for signs that are neither maths, money nor punctuation and files it in the Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement block; this site shelves it under Lines & boxes.

Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.

How it is encoded

𜶚 is a single code point, U1CD9A. In HTML that is 𜶚, and in CSS \1CD9A.

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Questions people ask

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Why 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.

How to type or find 𜶚

Search it as
semigraphics · text graphics · pixel blocks · mosaic blocks · retro computers
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 1CD9A, then AltX to get 𜶚.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “block octant-13468”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 1cd9a, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜶚
CSS
\1CD9A
HTML/XML
In markup, write 𜶚; the parser resolves it to this character.
JavaScript
In a JavaScript string, use the braced Unicode escape \u{1CD9A}.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜶚
HTML hex
𜶚
CSS content
content: "\1CD9A";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B6%9A
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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.

Families this belongs to

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Legacy computing935 symbols