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𜵐

block octant-23457

Block Octant-23457

𜵐 is a tile for semigraphics—using text characters as chunky pixels—and its name identifies five filled cells in a 2-by-4 grid. Kaypro's 1984 graphics mode used octant patterns; the 2021 Unicode proposal cited compatibility with old data, emulators, and text-mode graphics as reasons to encode the legacy set.

Text symbol

What 𜵐 means

Each character carried one patch of a larger image. A 1984 Kaypro graphics guide describes a cell as eight pixels in two columns and four rows, with software setting each subcell individually. That is semigraphics: chunky text characters arranged side by side to draw bigger pictures.

Technical and archival: one filled-cell pattern from a legacy text-graphics set.

Part of the collection

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Retro Computer & Teletext Symbols

Questions people ask

Why 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.

How to type or find 𜵐

Search it as: octant · semigraphics · mosaic · kaypro · cp/m · graphics
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

Windows (Word)

⎇Alt+XType 1CD50, 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-23457”.

Linux

⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 1cd50, then Enter or Space.

HTML

𜵐

CSS

\1CD50

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

𜵐

HTML hex

𜵐

CSS content

content: "\1CD50";

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

URL encoded

%F0%9C%B5%90

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

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