What 🬆 means
It fills both top cells and the middle-left cell.
A sextant is a character cell split into two columns and three rows. Teletext, a TV service for text and simple graphics, was developed in the UK in the early 1970s and used six-cell mosaics. France’s Minitel, an interactive telephone-line information service, used similar blocks from the early 1980s. Joined tiles made low-resolution pictures.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Can 🬆 have gaps between its cells?
Yes. The 2003 Enhanced Teletext specification describes its mosaic cells as joined or separated by narrow gaps, using a separate control code. The spacing comes from Teletext’s display mode, not the character.
How to type 🬆
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1FB06, 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-123”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fb06, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🬆CSS
\1FB06Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🬆
HTML hex
🬆
CSS content
content: "\1FB06";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AC%86
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.