Upper Two-Thirds Block

In Word for Windows, type 1FB0E without U+, then press Alt+X.

What does this block show?

It fills the top two rows of a six-part tile. The tile splits one character cell into two columns and three rows; each small cell acts like an on/off pixel in a text drawing.

UK teletext developed in the early 1970s to broadcast information pages and simple block graphics; its mosaic set included these 2×3 tiles. France’s Minitel later used similar block graphics in an interactive telephone-based information service.

A Unicode proposal from 2019 sought to keep such legacy graphics convertible between old systems and Unicode. It documents two Teletext modes: the cells can touch or sit apart with narrow gaps, selected by a control code. For text art, each tile can carry a six-part pixel pattern.