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block sextant-5

Block Sextant-5

🬏 is one patch in a six-cell grid for text graphics. Teletext and home computers used mosaics like this to make pictures from character cells; terminal art reuses the idea. A font or terminal must support the glyph to display it.

Text symbol
Search it as
sextant · mosaic · teletext · terminal · semigraphics · pixel
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 🬏 means

It is a tile for text-grid pictures. A sextant splits a character cell into six (two columns, three rows); “5” names this cell. The term echoes quadrant blocks, split into four.

Britain's 1974 Broadcast Teletext draft includes six-cell mosaics for TV-page pictures. Similar grids appeared in home-computer graphics and France's Minitel videotext. They let character cells act as pixels; terminal art reuses the grid.

As of 2026, some terminal emulators draw legacy blocks when a font lacks them. If 🬏 appears blank or boxed, use a font covering Symbols for Legacy Computing or a terminal with built-in support; the text can still contain it.

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 1FB0F, 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-5”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fb0f, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🬏
CSS
\1FB0F
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🬏
HTML hex
🬏
CSS content
content: "\1FB0F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AC%8F
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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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