What means
It is one patterned cell in a text-mode picture.
Early Kaypro personal computers split each text cell into eight tiny pixels in a 24 grid. Software drew pictures by placing patterns side by side, even in text files. Unicode named octants by analogy with earlier four-part block quadrants and six-part sextants; “2348” lists this tile’s filled cells.
A terminal-image library uses octants to render pictures as text cells; its package page was published in 2026.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does block octant 2348 show as a box?
Your font probably lacks the glyph. Windows Terminal shipped Cascadia Code with octant support in 2024; other fonts may not include it.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- semigraphics · mosaic · pixels · kaypro
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𜵾CSS
\1CD7ECodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜵾
HTML hex
𜵾
CSS content
content: "\1CD7E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B5%BE
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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.