What 🬄 means
It lights cells 1 and 3 in a six-cell tile.
British teletext—text pages delivered with TV broadcasts—used two-column, three-row mosaic blocks for small graphics from the early 1970s. France's Minitel information service used similar blocks from the early 1980s until 2012; the Mattel Aquarius computer's character set includes this exact pattern. Neighboring tiles combine into larger low-resolution pictures.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions 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.
How to type 🬄
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1FB04, 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-13”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fb04, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🬄CSS
\1FB04HTML
HTML character reference for block sextant-13: write `🬄` in the document source.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🬄
HTML hex
🬄
CSS content
content: "\1FB04";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AC%84
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.