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𜴆

block octant-34

Block Octant-34

This semigraphics tile fills two of a character cell’s eight mini-cells, forming part of a picture. Kaypro computers used 2 4 mosaics for text-screen drawings by 1984. As of 2026, some terminal renderers use the grid as colored pseudo-pixels.

Text symbol

What 𜴆 means

It filled two of eight tiny cells in a drawing grid.

On Kaypro computers running CP/M, an operating system, each character space held a 2 4 grid. Software turned its blocks on or off, arranging neighboring characters into pictures. Doug Mahugh’s SCS-Draw used this method.

Unicode later encoded such patterns to preserve compatibility with older computers and terminals.

Part of the collection

🬀

Retro Computer & Teletext Symbols

Questions people ask

Why does it show as a box or blank?

The active font may lack this glyph. As of 2026, some installed fonts still omit octants, so terminals may show a box or nothing.

How to type or find 𜴆

Search it as: semigraphics · terminal graphics · text graphics · kaypro graphics · pseudopixels
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

Windows (Word)

⎇Alt+XType 1CD06, then AltX to get 𜴆.

Windows

⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).

macOS

⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “block octant-34”.

Linux

⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 1cd06, then Enter or Space.

HTML

𜴆

CSS

\1CD06

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

𜴆

HTML hex

𜴆

CSS content

content: "\1CD06";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%F0%9C%B4%86

On screen

Code points

JS .length

UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

Legacy computing935 symbols

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