What means
It fills six of eight positions in a two-column, four-row cell. The suffix 234567 names them. A character cell is one text slot; adjacent tiles can join into a pixel picture.
Kaypro drew with text blocks
Kaypro computers running CP/M, an early operating system, used 24 blocks after ASCII, a standard set of English letters and numbers; text files could store them. A documented example from 1984 is SCS-Draw, a Kaypro drawing program that treated each character cell as eight black-or-green pixels. This is semigraphics.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why do octant tiles show gaps?
They should meet at cell edges. If they do not, extra character spacing is breaking the grid; use a fixed-width font with normal spacing.
More like this
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- semigraphics · Kaypro · 2×4 graphics · block mosaic
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𜵯CSS
\1CD6FCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜵯
HTML hex
𜵯
CSS content
content: "\1CD6F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B5%AF
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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.