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🬀

block sextant-1

Block Sextant-1

🬀 is a building block for pictures made from text characters. A single tile gives only one piece of a larger drawing; a grid of them can form an image, chart, or interface.

Text symbol

Search it as: teletext · semigraphics · pixel art · text graphics · terminal · tofu box
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 🬀 means

It fills one cell in a two-column, three-row tile.

Its recognizable lineage runs through UK teletext, a broadcast text service, whose mosaic blocks appeared in the early 1970s. Their two-column, three-row arrangement let text screens draw pictures cell by cell; similar tiles served microcomputers from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s.

As of 2026, terminal emulators and retro-computing tools reuse this grid for pixel art, charts, and interface graphics.

Technical, with a retro-computing feel.

A box means the font or text app lacks the glyph; it does not show the intended cell pattern.

Don't confuse it with

▘

Quadrant Upper Left

▘ fills the upper-left quarter of a 2×2 block; 🬀 marks one cell in a 2×3 grid, so the two patterns are not interchangeable.

Questions people ask

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 1FB00, 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 sextant-1”.

Linux

Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fb00, then Enter or Space.

HTML

🬀

CSS

\1FB00

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

🬀

HTML hex

🬀

CSS content

content: "\1FB00";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%F0%9F%AC%80

On screen

Code points

JS .length

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

Legacy computing935 symbols

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