What 🬓 means
The suffix names the filled parts of a six-cell tile.
Cell 3 is middle-left; cell 5 is bottom-left. “Sextant” describes a mosaic divided into six parts.
Teletext, a UK TV information service developed in the early 1970s, used block mosaics for graphics; TRS-80 characters used the same grid. A 2017 Unicode proposal mapped the sextant set to both systems to preserve old character data and support emulators; its role stayed visual.
Can these tiles make a picture?
Yes; align tiles in a text grid to make a blocky picture.
Teletext mosaics could touch or leave narrow gaps. For text art, use a monospaced font; proportional spacing can break alignment.
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.
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How to type or find 🬓
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- teletext · mosaic · sextant · terminal · graphics · pixel
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🬓\1FB13Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.