What means
It marks three of the tile’s eight small cells. The digits 2, 5, and 8 name those positions in a two-column, four-row grid.
Adjacent tiles make larger pictures one character cell at a time. Unicode’s proposal also aimed to let text data move between legacy computers, emulators, and Unicode-based terminal software.
Part of the collection
Related characters
1
Combination ideas
1Repeating the tile makes a small, regular mosaic texture.
Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box?
Missing-glyph fallback. A font or terminal without a drawing for this character may show a box or replacement symbol; the placeholder is not the intended mosaic.
More like this
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- semigraphics · terminal graphics · text graphics · terminal art · pixel mosaic · 2x4 grid · kaypro
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𜶂CSS
\1CD82Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜶂
HTML hex
𜶂
CSS content
content: "\1CD82";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B6%82
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.