What means
One text cell acts as a tiny pixel canvas.
Its 2-by-4 grid has eight spots; “15678” names the five filled. Lined up with other octants, it forms larger images.
Semigraphic blocks let home computers imitate pixels in the 1970s and 1980s. In January 1984, a Kaypro 10 manual describes plotting in 2-by-4 text cells and reversing light and dark to reach every pattern; this tile belongs to its reverse graphics set.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box on some devices?
It is recent: Unicode added it in version 16.0 (2024), and phones and computers whose fonts are older than that have nothing to draw it with. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- octant · Kaypro graphics · terminal art · block mosaic · pixel art
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𜷛CSS
\1CDDBCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜷛
HTML hex
𜷛
CSS content
content: "\1CDDB";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B7%9B
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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.