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𜴧

block octant-56

Block Octant-56

Block Octant-56 is a tiny pixel tile from Kaypro text graphics. It fills two of eight positions in a character-sized grid, so adjacent tiles can make rough screen pictures.

Text symbol
Search it as
pixel tile · pixel block · semigraphics · Kaypro graphics · Kaypro B0 · 2x4 pixels · text graphics
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 𜴧 means

It supplied part of a text-mode picture. An octant is a character cell divided into two columns and four rows; this pattern fills cells 5 and 6.

Kaypro computers ran CP/M, a computer operating system, and used semigraphic character cells as rough pixels in text mode. A 1983 Kaypro guide describes graphics in these two-column, four-row groups. Unicode added the corresponding standalone character in 2024.

A technical tile for block-built text graphics.

Kaypro’s old byte B0 is a legacy encoding value, not a Unicode input code.

Don't confuse it with

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𜴀
Block Octant-3
shares “block”, “octant”
𜴁
Block Octant-23
shares “block”, “octant”
𜴂
Block Octant-123
shares “block”, “octant”
𜴃
Block Octant-4
shares “block”, “octant”

Questions people ask

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Why 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.

How to type 𜴧

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1CD27, 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-56”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1cd27, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜴧
CSS
\1CD27
HTML
In HTML, write `𜴧` as a character reference for this symbol.
Kaypro legacy mapping
Kaypro maps it to normal-mode byte `B0`; that legacy byte is not a Unicode input value.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜴧
HTML hex
𜴧
CSS content
content: "\1CD27";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B4%A7
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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.

Families this belongs to

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Legacy computing935 symbols

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