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block sextant-34

Block sextant 34

🬋 is a six-cell mosaic tile with its middle pair filled. Set tiles in a character grid, and terminal graphics can sketch coarse pictures with text.

Text symbol
Search it as
text mosaic · terminal graphics · character graphics · block graphics · terminal art · pixel art text
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 🬋 means

It fills the middle pair of a six-cell mosaic.

The two-column, three-row tile fills cells 3 and 4, its middle pair. Teletext, a UK TV text service developed in the early 1970s, and Minitel, France's telephone-based videotext service, used 2-by-3 mosaics for simple graphics.

The 2018 Unicode proposal named these blocks “sextants” by analogy with existing “quadrant” blocks. Teletext controls selected joined cells or narrow gaps. As of 2026, Notcurses uses sextant grids for terminal pictures; fonts without 🬋 may show a blank or replacement mark.

Don't confuse it with

4
🬀
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 1FB0B, 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-34”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fb0b, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🬋
CSS
\1FB0B
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🬋
HTML hex
🬋
CSS content
content: "\1FB0B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AC%8B
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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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Legacy computing935 symbols

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