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🬒

block sextant-125

Block Sextant-125

🬒 is a block mosaic tile, with cells 1, 2, and 5 filled in a 2×3 grid. Teletext and TRS-80 used tiles like this to build pictures from text characters.

Text symbol
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teletext mosaic · block mosaic · mosaic tile · TRS-80
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 🬒 means

It fills the top row and lower-left cell. The numbers run by row: 1–2 at top, 3–4 in the middle, 5–6 at bottom.

The Teletext character set’s 2×3 mosaics date to its UK origins in the early 1970s; Teletext became common across Europe. Mosaics let text pages draw maps and charts with cell graphics. A 1977 report on Ceefax, the BBC’s Teletext service, says designers reused text cells because line drawing was too complex for inexpensive receivers. Unicode preserves these forms in character data for old files and emulators.

The Teletext spacing options in the 2003 specification let mosaic cells appear joined or separated by narrow gaps. That changes the gaps between tiles, not the character itself.

Don't confuse it with

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Questions people ask

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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.

How to type 🬒

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1FB12, 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-125”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fb12, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🬒
CSS
\1FB12
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🬒
HTML hex
🬒
CSS content
content: "\1FB12";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AC%92
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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.

Families this belongs to

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