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𜴈

block octant-234

Block Octant-234

𜴈 is a small block pattern from Kaypro home computers; “234” names the filled parts of its eight-cell tile. These semigraphics let text screens draw low-resolution pictures. Terminal programs can reuse octants as compact pseudo-pixels.

Text symbol

What 𜴈 means

It fills cells 2, 3, and 4 in a two-by-four tile. Kaypro's character set used these patterns as on/off tiles for text-mode drawings. Unicode later preserved the set so emulators and text files could exchange the original graphics.

Part of the collection

🬀

Retro Computer & Teletext Symbols

Questions people ask

Why does octant 234 show as a box?

Usually the font lacks this glyph. Cascadia Code added support for all octants in a release announced April 30, 2024.

How to type or find 𜴈

Search it as: kaypro · semigraphics · 2x4 graphics · terminal graphics
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

Windows (Word)

⎇Alt+XType 1CD08, then AltX to get 𜴈.

Windows

⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).

macOS

⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “block octant-234”.

Linux

⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 1cd08, then Enter or Space.

HTML

𜴈

CSS

\1CD08

Kaypro input

The Kaypro 8D code was a one-byte value in its old character set; Unicode gives the pattern a separate character identity.

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

𜴈

HTML hex

𜴈

CSS content

content: "\1CD08";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%F0%9C%B4%88

On screen

Code points

JS .length

UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

Legacy computing935 symbols

𜰀𜰁𜰂𜰃𜰄𜰅𜰆𜰇𜰈𜰉𜰊𜰋