What means
It fills six positions in a two-column, four-row grid. Programs combine these cells to sketch pictures in text.
A 1983 Kaypro 10 guide documents 2-by-4 graphics characters. Unicode's 2022 proposal maps this pattern to Kaypro's reverse-video set, which swaps light and dark, and names octants by analogy with quadrant and sextant mosaics.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box in my terminal?
The font or terminal renderer may lack the glyph. A five-emulator check on 2026-09-28 found 0%–53% overall coverage for the supplement.
More like this
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- octant block · text graphics · semigraphics · Kaypro graphics
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𜷟CSS
\1CDDFCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜷟
HTML hex
𜷟
CSS content
content: "\1CDDF";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B7%9F
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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.