What 🬕 means
It fills four cells of a six-part grid.
A sextant splits a cell into 2 × 3 parts, numbered left to right, top to bottom; this tile fills 1, 2, 3, and 5. British teletext developed in the early 1970s to broadcast information pages, and its 1976 specification used mosaic graphics. The TRS-80 used the same grid; its cells were called squots (“square dots”). Older quadrant blocks split cells in four; sextants add a row of detail.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does 🬕 show as a box?
Usually the terminal's font or renderer lacks the glyph. As of 2026, terminal software may draw block shapes itself or rely on the configured font, so display varies.
How to type 🬕
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1FB15, 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-1235”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fb15, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🬕CSS
\1FB15Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🬕
HTML hex
🬕
CSS content
content: "\1FB15";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AC%95
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.