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𜷙

block octant-234678

Block Octant-234678

𜷙 fills six of eight parts in a 2-by-4 text tile. As semigraphics, neighboring tiles act like chunky pixels and form a picture.

Text symbol

What 𜷙 means

Cells 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8 are filled. The other two stay open.

Joined together, octants make terminal pixel art: pictures assembled from text cells.

Why did Kaypro use octants?

They let text cells stand in for graphics pixels. Kaypro home computers used 24 semigraphics to sketch images one character cell at a time. A 1983 Kaypro 10 guide documents graphics characters and pixel drawing; its reverse-video set, where light and dark switch places, includes this pattern.

As of 2026, Ratatui, a terminal UI library, documents octants as chart markers.

Part of the collection

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Retro Computer & Teletext Symbols

Questions people ask

Can my terminal fail to show this glyph?

Yes. A font or terminal without an octant glyph may show a replacement character. Ratatui’s documentation says octants are less widely supported than Braille as of 2026.

How to type or find 𜷙

Search it as: semigraphics · terminal graphics · text graphics · 2×4 graphics · Kaypro graphics
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

Windows (Word)

⎇Alt+XType 1CDD9, 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-234678”.

Linux

⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 1cdd9, then Enter or Space.

HTML

𜷙

CSS

\1CDD9

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

𜷙

HTML hex

𜷙

CSS content

content: "\1CDD9";

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

URL encoded

%F0%9C%B7%99

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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