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.
Part of the collection
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.
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
𜶚\1CD9A𜶚; the parser resolves it to this character.\u{1CD9A}.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.



