What means
A single tile in a 2×4 grid of coarse pixels. The numbers identify its four filled cells; neighboring tiles can form a larger drawing.
Kaypro used octants to draw on a text screen
The 1983 Kaypro 10 User’s Guide describes Kaypro graphics characters: each text cell could represent eight on-and-off blocks, which programs used to plot pixels, lines, and shapes. Unicode’s source mapping ties this exact tile to the Kaypro reverse set.
Octants belong to the same block-mosaic family as quadrant and sextant characters, which divide a tile into four or six cells. A 2022 Unicode proposal preserved this family for exchanging legacy computer text, building emulators, and drawing graphics in modern text applications.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
2Why does block octant 2567 show as a box?
The app’s active font must contain a drawing for this character. Cascadia Code 2404.03 added all 256 octants, but support depends on the font in use.
Is Kaypro’s byte CE the same as this Unicode character?
The source mapping assigns this tile to byte CE in Kaypro’s reverse set. That byte belongs to the older computer’s character system; Unicode gives the graphic a distinct identifier for modern interchange.
How to type
𜵣\1CD63Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.