What means
A tiny graphics tile inside one text character’s space. That space is split into a 2-by-4 grid; “4567” names the filled cells, and adjacent tiles can extend a drawing.
By 1983, a Kaypro 10 guide documented text-cell graphics: software could set pixels inside each character space. A Unicode proposal in 2022 carried these patterns forward for legacy-data conversion and emulators.
Part of the collection
Related characters
1
Combination ideas
1Designed strip: repeats this pixel tile across two adjacent cells.
Questions people ask
1Why does this symbol show as a box?
Usually a font or terminal support issue. As of 2026, many fonts still omit it, and some terminals draw these blocks themselves. Use a display with block-mosaic support.
More like this
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- kaypro · semigraphics · mosaic · pixelart · textmode · terminal
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𜵩CSS
\1CD69Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜵩
HTML hex
𜵩
CSS content
content: "\1CD69";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B5%A9
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.