What means
It turns one text cell into a tiny drawing surface.
A Kaypro 10 was an early personal computer. Its 1983 guide explains that each character cell held a 24 pixel grid; software switched tiny blocks on and off to draw images. This pattern came from Kaypro's graphics set. If a font lacks its glyph, it shows a fallback box; Microsoft added octants to Cascadia Code in 2024.
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Can I use in a Kaypro file?
Not directly. Kaypro software expected a byte from its own graphics set; this Unicode character maps to the Kaypro byte EA. A converter must translate it for an old program to read.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- text graphics · terminal graphics · terminal art · semigraphics · Kaypro graphics · pixel mosaic
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𜶅CSS
\1CD85Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜶅
HTML hex
𜶅
CSS content
content: "\1CD85";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B6%85
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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.