What 🬌 means
Each tile marks one small patch of a text-mode picture.
Teletext broadcast information pages over analog TV; the service began in the UK in the early 1970s. Its mosaic graphics included all 64 patterns in a 2×3 grid, for simple pictures beside text. The Oric home-computer series also used similar sextant blocks.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does the sextant tile show as a box in Zed?
The font may not contain this glyph. A May 10, 2026 report for Zed 1.1.7 on macOS 26.4.1 described numbered boxes where Expo’s terminal QR used sextant glyphs.
How to type 🬌
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1FB0C, 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-134”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fb0c, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🬌CSS
\1FB0CLinux
GNOME/GTK’s hex-input method as of 2026-09-29: press Ctrl+Shift+U, type 1FB0C, then Space or Enter.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🬌
HTML hex
🬌
CSS content
content: "\1FB0C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AC%8C
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.