What means
It marks five filled cells in a tiny graphics tile. Kaypro graphics used a 24 mosaic grid, with the digits 13578 naming its selected cells. Join character cells and they form a low-resolution picture.
A Kaypro 10 user guide from 1983 describes these eight-block cells as a way to draw within character positions on a text screen. Unicode later preserved the pattern for faithful text conversion, emulators, and text-mode drawings.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does it show as a box on my screen?
It usually means the chosen font has no glyph for this character; some apps show a box, another fallback mark, or blank space. Cascadia Code added octant glyph support in 2024, but display still depends on the font and app.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- kaypro · kaypro graphics · text graphics · mosaic graphics · 2×4 graphics · semigraphics
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜷀\1CDC0Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.