Block Sextant-145

🬗 fills cells 1, 4, and 5 of a 23 graphics tile. Legacy text systems combined such tiles into rough pictures; alone, this is a fragment of a drawing.

Text symbol

What 🬗 means

It fills three of six cells in a screen tile. The digits mark them: 1 upper left, 4 middle right, 5 lower left.

The 23 pattern let computers draw pictures in text grids. UK teletext, developed in the early 1970s, used 23 mosaics for TV-page graphics; France's Minitel, a home information service, used similar graphics from the early 1980s. A 2019 Unicode proposal aimed to preserve these legacy patterns for data conversion and emulators.

Why does the separated sextant have gaps?

The spaced look is a separate character. Teletext could show mosaic cells joined or with narrow background gaps. Unicode also has a separate character for the same 1-4-5 pattern with gaps.

Questions people ask

Why 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.