What 🬍 means
It fills the top-right and both middle cells of the six-cell tile.
A sextant is a six-cell mosaic in two columns and three rows. Teletext block graphics and early computer sets used such tiles for pictures inside text rows. UK teletext, a TV information service, took shape in the early 1970s; France’s Minitel, an online service, used the same blocks from the early 1980s to 2012. Unicode grouped patterns from those systems.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 🬍 show up as a box?
The selected font or app may not draw it. In a 2026 terminal-support check, some emulators drew these legacy blocks themselves when the font lacked them, so the same character could look different across apps.
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How to type or find 🬍
- Search it as
- teletext · mosaic · pixel art · text graphics · terminal
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
🬍CSS
\1FB0DCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🬍
HTML hex
🬍
CSS content
content: "\1FB0D";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AC%8D
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.