Block sextant 12356

🬴 is a five-of-six sextant tile for terminal graphics. Its 23 mosaic can build rough pictures from text, as in teletext; terminal-art programs still use the grid.

Text symbol

What 🬴 means

It is a single tile in a low-resolution text picture.

Sextants split a character cell into two columns and three rows. This one has cells 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 filled. A string of these tiles approximates a small image in terminal graphics, like the teletext mosaic.

UK teletext (TV text and graphics) used 23 mosaics from early 1970s. Home computers from mid-1970s to mid-1980s used character graphics; France’s Minitel, a phone-line information service, used similar tiles from early 1980s to 2012. Unicode preserves these sets for conversion and emulation. As of 2026, tools such as Notcurses use sextants only with terminal support; missing glyphs may appear blank or as replacement marks, and misaligned cells break pictures.

Questions people ask

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.