What 🬝 means
It lets one character cell carry a picture tile.
Here, “sextant” means a 2-by-3 mosaic; this one fills five cells. Teletext was a UK television text service from the early 1970s, broadcasting information pages and block pictures. TRS-80 computers also used these tiles for text-mode graphics; Unicode carries the legacy designs as text.
In 2023, one programming example turned pixel grids into text pictures with sextants, using each as one tile in the image.
Why is my symbol a blank box?
Your font or terminal may not support it. As of 2026, some terminal emulators draw the mosaic themselves; others need a supporting font. A placeholder box means the glyph could not be rendered.
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4Questions people ask
1Why 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 🬝
🬝\1FB1DCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.