What 🬛 means
It forms one patch in a block picture.
Cells number left to right, top to bottom; 2 and 6 stay open. “Sextant” echoes “quadrant” and names six blocks in one character cell.
How did teletext use six-cell mosaics?
It turned character cells into simple pictures.
UK teletext broadcast text and block graphics to TVs from the early 1970s. A joint 1976 specification defined the 2×3 grid; cells could join or show narrow gaps.
The same pattern appears in the TRS-80 (1977) and Oric (1983) home-computer character sets.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does this character show as an empty box?
A missing-glyph fallback, not the design. A supporting font shows the six-cell pattern.
How to type 🬛
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1FB1B, 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-1345”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fb1b, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🬛CSS
\1FB1BHTML
Use the HTML character reference for the sextant tile: `🬛`.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🬛
HTML hex
🬛
CSS content
content: "\1FB1B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AC%9B
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.