What means
A Kaypro tile with four filled cells in a two-column, four-row grid.
The ending digits list its filled cells. On Kaypro CP/M computers, such semigraphics acted as on/off pixels: programs placed character tiles across the text screen to draw small pictures and borders.
The 1983 Kaypro 10 guide describes the two-by-four drawing method. A 2021 Unicode proposal maps the old Kaypro patterns for emulators and file conversion; it calls eight-cell tiles “octants” by analogy with four-cell quadrants and six-cell sextants. To convert an old Kaypro text file, decode its stored byte with the Kaypro character mapping; that byte is not itself this Unicode character.
Part of the collection
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Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box?
If the app's font lacks the character, it may show a missing-glyph box or leave a blank. That is a font-coverage issue, not a different octant pattern. Choose a font that includes the glyph to see the tile.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- kaypro · kaypro graphics · octant · semigraphics · terminal graphics · block graphics
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜵢\1CD62Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.