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🬯

block sextant-256

Block Sextant-256

🬯 is a patterned tile for drawing images in text: three parts of a six-part rectangle are filled. Early teletext and home computers used grids like this for coarse on-screen graphics. Terminal software can still paint pictures with sextant tiles.

Text symbol
Search it as
sixel · sextant · teletext · semigraphics · mosaic · terminal · pixel
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 🬯 means

It is a three-cell tile for text-mode graphics. In a 2-by-3 grid, its upper-right cell and both bottom cells are filled; “256” names those positions.

The 2-by-3 mosaic is part of early 1970s UK teletext and home-computer graphics. Teletext called each little block a “sixel”; these chunky pixels let text pages draw simple images such as weather maps and charts. Adjacent tiles make a larger picture.

As of 2026, Chafa lists sextant tiles as a symbol set for rendering pictures in a command-line window.

Don't confuse it with

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🬀
Block Sextant-1
shares “block”, “sextant”
🬁
Block Sextant-2
shares “block”, “sextant”
🬂
Block Sextant-12
shares “block”, “sextant”
🬃
Block Sextant-3
shares “block”, “sextant”

Questions people ask

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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.

How to type 🬯

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1FB2F, 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-256”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fb2f, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🬯
CSS
\1FB2F
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🬯
HTML hex
🬯
CSS content
content: "\1FB2F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AC%AF
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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.

Families this belongs to

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