What 🬮 means
They let characters draw tiny pictures on text-only screens.
On 1970s Tandy TRS-80 home computers, “squots” (“square dots”) formed 2 3 grids for simple pictures. Early-1970s UK teletext—TV pages sent with broadcasts—used similar mosaics for text and basic graphics. A 2017 Unicode proposal gathered old computer and teletext sets for conversion and emulators, software that imitates old machines. A 2002 teletext standard could make mosaic cells touch or leave narrow gaps; this character stores the pattern, not that display setting.
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Questions 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.
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How to type or find 🬮
- Search it as
- squots · semigraphics · mosaic · teletext · pixel
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🬮\1FB2E1FB2E in a Word document and press Alt+X; if the glyph is missing, choose a font that supports it.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.