What means
It fills four positions in an eight-part text tile.
Count a 24 cell grid across each row: positions 2, 5, 6, and 8 are filled—the top-right cell, both cells in row three, and bottom-right. Joined octants draw low-resolution pictures or bars; this is semigraphics.
The broader mosaic family appeared on microcomputers from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s, where it let text-only screens draw simple images. Kaypro’s character table maps this tile to code F1. Unicode preserves the set for text conversion and emulation.
Part of the collection
Questions people ask
1Why does block octant 2568 show as a box?
Your font or terminal may lack the glyph. A 2026 terminal-emulator test found octant support in Ghostty, kitty, and VTE, but not in urxvt or xterm.js.
How to type or find
- Search it as
- semigraphics · mosaic · terminal · pixel-art · bar-chart · retro-computing
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜶞\1CD9ECodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.



