What means
It divides one character cell into eight small on/off blocks. The digits 1, 4, 6, 7 and 8 identify the filled cells in its 2-by-4 grid.
The Kaypro graphics character set listed it as A9 in 1984, using reverse video (light and dark swapped). Its blocks acted like pixels, so strings of characters could sketch pictures in text mode. Unicode preserves the tile for compatibility with other text systems.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why do I see a box instead of ?
A blank box usually means the font or app has no glyph for this character. A font that covers this block can display it; the text still contains the same character.
More like this
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- kaypro graphics · block graphics · text graphics · semigraphics · terminal graphics · block tile
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𜷔CSS
\1CDD4Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜷔
HTML hex
𜷔
CSS content
content: "\1CDD4";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B7%94
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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.