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🬂

block sextant-12

Top Third Block

🬂 fills the top third of a 2×3 graphics tile. Teletext mosaics built small pictures; a missing-glyph box points to font or terminal support.

Text symbol
Search it as
sextant · teletext · mosaic tile · pixel text
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 🬂 means

A band across the top third of a character cell.

A sextant divides one character cell into six mini-cells: two columns by three rows. “12” means both top cells are filled.

UK teletext, which broadcast TV text pages with block graphics, began in the early 1970s. Home computers from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s and Minitel, France’s online text service in the early 1980s, also used 2×3 mosaics to build pictures from on/off cells.

Why can 🬂 look different?

Spacing rules and font support change its display.

The teletext specification allowed joined cells or narrow gaps. As of September 2026, terminal support varied: some emulators draw the blocks themselves; others rely on a font containing the glyph.

Don't confuse it with

4
🬀
Block Sextant-1
shares “block”, “sextant”
🬁
Block Sextant-2
shares “block”, “sextant”
🬃
Block Sextant-3
shares “block”, “sextant”
🬄
Block Sextant-13
shares “block”, “sextant”

Combination ideas

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Designed: adjacent tiles extend the band across a wider graphic.

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 1FB02, 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-12”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fb02, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🬂
CSS
\1FB02
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🬂
HTML hex
🬂
CSS content
content: "\1FB02";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AC%82
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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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