What means
In Microsoft Word, type 1CDCD, then press Alt+X.
If letters or numbers sit immediately before the code, select only 1CDCD first; otherwise Word may include those characters in its conversion.
What does block octant 2678 do?
It makes one tile in a text-mode mosaic.
A character cell is a small slot in a text screen; divide it into two columns and four rows, and its lit pieces act like chunky pixels. Here the cell labels 2, 6, 7, and 8 are filled. Put matching tiles beside one another and they can draw larger shapes.
A 1983 Kaypro 10 user's guide documents this 2 4 system for screen graphics: programs could address pixels, draw lines, and combine block characters. Unicode 16.0 brought the octant patterns into a portable text standard. Their role shifted from marks on one machine's display to named characters software can exchange.
A technical mosaic tile: one filled patch for assembling terminal graphics.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box?
The font or app may lack its glyph. Unicode 16.0 assigns the character, but software needs a font glyph to draw the mosaic; without one, it can show a missing-character box.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- semigraphics · 2x4 block · text-mode graphics · Kaypro graphics · mosaic tile · terminal graphics
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜷍\1CDCD1CDCD and press Alt+X; if the code follows another character, select only 1CDCD before converting.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.