What means
It lights the top-left and bottom-right cells. Repeated tiles draw pictures on a 24 text grid.
Kaypro's normal graphics set maps it to character code C2. The 1982 Kaypro II guide describes ASCII and Greek in 58 cells; the May 1983 Kaypro 10 guide explains 24 graphics pixels. Unicode's 2021 proposal records the pattern for interchange.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
1
Related characters
1
Combination ideas
1Repeating it makes a sparse pattern across aligned 24 text cells.
Questions people ask
1Why does this symbol appear as an empty box?
Terminal support for the supplement block varies by emulator as of 2026. A font without the glyph may show a missing-character box even when the text contains this exact symbol.
More like this
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- kaypro · mosaic · pixel · terminal
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𜵱CSS
\1CD71Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜵱
HTML hex
𜵱
CSS content
content: "\1CD71";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B5%B1
1
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.