What means
It gave Kaypro text screens pieces for pictures. A 1984 user guide describes Kaypro graphics cells as two columns by four rows of pixels. Unicode maps this pattern to Kaypro’s reverse set, byte E2, where inverse video swaps light and dark.
Earlier half-block and quadrant characters made coarser mosaics. Unicode octants split a cell more finely, carrying that terminal-art idea into text.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box?
Your font may lack this glyph. Microsoft announced octant support in Cascadia Code in April 2024; font coverage varies.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- kaypro · mosaic · terminal graphics · semigraphics · block graphics · pseudographics
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𜵟CSS
\1CD5FCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜵟
HTML hex
𜵟
CSS content
content: "\1CD5F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B5%9F
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On screen
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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.