What means
It marks three filled cells in a 2-by-4 tile.
Semigraphics means pictures made from text blocks. An octant splits one text cell into two columns and four rows; its digits identify the filled cells.
How did this tile move from screen to text?
It started as a Kaypro display pattern and survives in text.
A 1983 Kaypro 10 guide describes each character cell as eight pixel spots in a 2-by-4 grid. Software joined patterns into text-screen drawings without addressing each pixel separately. Unicode preserves this tile as text.
Part of the collection
Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- kaypro graphics · text graphics · semigraphics · 2x4 graphics · pixel tile
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𜴒CSS
\1CD12HTML source
Enter
𜴒 as a hexadecimal character reference; it spells out the full character value.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜴒
HTML hex
𜴒
CSS content
content: "\1CD12";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B4%92
1
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.