What 🬫 means
It gives a character cell a six-part pixel grid. The grid has two columns and three rows, numbered left to right and top to bottom; for 🬫, cells 2, 3, 4, and 6 are filled. Adjacent tiles can form a larger picture in a fixed-width font, while variable-width spacing may leave seams. Sextants add a finer mosaic to older box-drawing and block graphics.
Don't confuse it with
4Combination ideas
1Repeat the tile in adjacent cells to extend the same fill across a wider mosaic.
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.
How to type 🬫
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1FB2B, 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-2346”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fb2b, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🬫CSS
\1FB2BCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🬫
HTML hex
🬫
CSS content
content: "\1FB2B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AC%AB
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.