What 🬸 means
Five of its six blocks are filled. The digits in its name mark the lit cells in this 23 tile; one cell stays blank. One character supplies a tile, while adjacent tiles complete a larger text image.
Where did this kind of tile come from?
It belongs to a family of low-resolution screen graphics. Teletext graphics started in the UK in the early 1970s, carrying information pages over television. Its mosaic mode used six small blocks per character cell. A 1976 specification distinguishes touching from gap-separated mosaics. The 2019 Unicode proposal maps this pattern to Teletext, Minitel terminals, and Oric and TRS-80 computers, preserving their older graphic data as text.
Questions 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.
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How to type or find 🬸
- Search it as
- teletext · mosaic tile · pixel block · text graphics
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🬸\1FB38Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.