What 🬲 means
It is one tile for building blocky text pictures. A sextant grid divides a single character space into two columns and three rows; this pattern fills four of six parts.
Teletext began in the UK in the early 1970s, sending information pages and block pictures to televisions. Home computers from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s used similar grids. France's Minitel, an online service on dedicated terminals, also used 2-by-3 blocks for graphics from the early 1980s. The Teletext specification let controls join the cells or leave narrow gaps.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does 🬲 look blank in my terminal?
The active font or renderer lacks a glyph for it. As of 2026, some terminal emulators draw these characters themselves, even when the chosen font has no outline.
How to type 🬲
🬲\1FB32Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.