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🬵

block sextant-456

Block Sextant-456

🬵 is a six-cell tile for text graphics: cells 4, 5 and 6 fill a 2×3 grid. Teletext used such patterns to build maps and pictures from character cells. Unicode keeps it for compatibility.

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teletext · mosaic · alpha-mosaic · text graphics · videotext
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 🬵 means

It is one tile, not a complete picture. Six cells form two columns and three rows, numbered across each row; this one fills cells 4, 5 and 6.

British teletext emerged in the early 1970s with simple block graphics for information pages, maps, graphs and charts. A shared format followed in 1974; the 1976 Broadcast Teletext Specification documented its 2×3 mosaic set. Home computers used related semigraphics. Spain's TVE began its teletext service in 1988.

In teletext, mosaic cells could touch or have thin gaps; the 1988 videotex standard describes separated mosaics. Unicode carries the character, not that display setting.

Don't confuse it with

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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 1FB35, 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-456”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fb35, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🬵
CSS
\1FB35
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🬵
HTML hex
🬵
CSS content
content: "\1FB35";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AC%B5
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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.

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