What means
It fills two cells in an eight-part tile. Kaypro home computers of the early 1980s used semigraphics: each text cell stood for eight tiny on/off pixels, letting software draw pictures with character sequences. An encoding proposal submitted in 2021 mapped this Kaypro pattern into the octant set. The suffix 36 names the filled parts; read it as one tile in a larger image.
Technical and geometric, with a retrocomputing feel.
If it appears as an empty box, your font may lack the glyph; Cascadia Code added octant support in April 2024.
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Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- semigraphics · 2x4 graphics · text-mode graphics · Kaypro graphics · pixel grid
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜴜\1CD1CCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.