What 🬱 means
Three of its six cells are filled. Numbering runs left to right, row by row; 3, 5, and 6 mark the middle-left and both bottom cells.
Teletext is a TV text service; its mosaic characters could be placed side by side to build simple graphics. France’s Minitel, an interactive text service, also used 2×3 mosaics.
In the 2003 Teletext standard, cells could touch or have thin gaps. That changed how adjacent tiles joined, not which parts this character fills.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions 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.
How to type 🬱
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1FB31, 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-356”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fb31, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🬱CSS
\1FB31Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🬱
HTML hex
🬱
CSS content
content: "\1FB31";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AC%B1
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.