What means
It is one cell in a 2-by-4 picture grid. Its digits mark the five filled regions.
Home computers in the 1970s and 1980s used semigraphics—character cells as chunky pixels; Kaypro displays used 2-by-4 block graphics. Unicode’s legacy-computing set preserves these forms for converting old character data and terminal graphics. Terminal mosaic graphics join neighboring octants; foreground and background color can fill the grid.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does an octant show as a blank square?
Your font or terminal may not draw it. A tracker checked in 2026 shows uneven terminal support for block mosaics.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- octant · octants · semigraphics · terminal · mosaic · pseudopixel · pixel
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𜷇CSS
\1CDC7Unicode hex input
In an editor with Unicode hexadecimal entry, type 1CDC7 and trigger its conversion command.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
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HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\1CDC7";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B7%87
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.