What 🬷 means
It lights the top-right, middle-right and both bottom cells.
Read the 2 3 mosaic row by row: cells 1–2 are at the top, 3–4 in the middle, and 5–6 at the bottom. The digits in the name mark filled cells, so 1 and 3 are empty.
Britain’s teletext service, which broadcast text pages to TV sets, used six-cell graphics by 1974 for simple pictures. Its 1976 standard allowed cells to touch or sit apart, and Oric home computers used similar tiles. Unicode later encoded the wider sextant family for old-data compatibility and text-mode graphics.
How do I type Block Sextant-2456?
Use hexadecimal Unicode input or your system’s character viewer.
As of 2026, Word for Windows accepts 1FB37 followed by AltX, and GNOME/GTK accepts CtrlShiftU, then 1FB37 and Enter or Space. On macOS, Unicode Hex Input cannot enter this five-digit value; Character Viewer can search by name or code.
Why does Block Sextant-2456 show as a box?
The font or terminal may not know how to draw it.
As of 2026, some terminal emulators draw sextant glyphs themselves, while others depend on the chosen font; few fonts include outlines for this block. If it appears blank or as a replacement square, use a font or terminal that supports legacy-computing mosaics.
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1Why does 🬷 show as a box on some devices?
It is recent: Unicode added it in version 13.0 (2020), and phones and computers whose fonts are older than that have nothing to draw it with. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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🬷\1FB37Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.