What means
It adds two filled cells to a larger pixel picture. An octant is a character tile split into eight mini-cells, arranged two across and four high. Here, the name's 1 and 4 mark which cells are filled.
On Kaypro graphics screens in the early 1980s, characters like this let programmers draw pictures on a screen built for text. Unicode keeps this exact design as part of Kaypro's character set, so it can still travel in text; its full picture comes from its neighbors.
A technical graphics tile, best suited to pixel drawings and retro-computing text.
When rendered, a blank box means your current font or app lacks this glyph.
Part of the collection
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsA small geometric patch; its larger picture is not visible.
Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- cp/m · octant · semigraphics · pixel · mosaic · kaypro · tile · pixelart
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜴄\1CD04Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.