What means
It fills cells 3, 5, 6 and 7. An octant divides one character cell into two columns and four rows.
Kaypro's CP/M computers used 2x4 block characters to plot pixels and lines. By 1983, a Kaypro 10 guide documents this method; the patterns sat above ASCII and could be stored in text files. Unicode carries the pattern as a text character.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does this character show as a box?
A missing-glyph box means the font lacks this shape. Microsoft added support for all octants to Cascadia Code in April 2024; a font with that coverage can display it.
How to type
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1CD65, then Alt+X 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-3567”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1cd65, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜵥CSS
\1CD65Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜵥
HTML hex
𜵥
CSS content
content: "\1CD65";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B5%A5
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.