What 🬚 means
It fills three cells in a six-part graphic tile.
The UK teletext service sent text pages to TVs and used 2-by-3 mosaics for pictures by the early 1970s. France’s Minitel online service and home computers used similar graphics. Joined tiles build larger images; teletext could show gaps between cells. “Sextant” echoes the older four-part “quadrant” block.
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4Questions people ask
1Why does 🬚 look uneven in a terminal?
It can be. In 2020, a Notcurses developer reported uneven sextant baselines and gaps in Alacritty 0.5.0 with Hack; check your font and terminal if tiles misalign.
How to type 🬚
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1FB1A, 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-345”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fb1a, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🬚CSS
\1FB1AHow to type a sextant
If your editor supports Unicode hex entry, type 1FB1A; otherwise, copy it from the palette above.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🬚
HTML hex
🬚
CSS content
content: "\1FB1A";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AC%9A
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.