What 🬰 means
A tile for low-resolution text graphics.
Home computers and UK teletext used 2-by-3 cells for coarse pictures in the 1970s; teletext’s 1976 standard included the set. France’s Minitel used similar graphics from the early 1980s to 2012.
The 2019 Unicode proposal uses “sextant” by analogy with “quadrant.” Its 1976 teletext rules allowed joined cells or narrow gaps; the display changed, not the pattern.
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4Questions people ask
1Why does 🬰 appear as a box on my screen?
Your font may lack its glyph. As of 2026, Noto Sans Symbols 2 lists support for the Symbols for Legacy Computing block; a font without the glyph may show a missing-character box.
How to type 🬰
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1FB30, 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-1256”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fb30, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🬰CSS
\1FB30HTML
How do I type 🬰 in HTML? Write `🬰` in your source.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🬰
HTML hex
🬰
CSS content
content: "\1FB30";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AC%B0
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.