What 🬞 means
It fills one cell in a six-part text tile.
Here “sextant” means a six-part mosaic, not a navigation tool. The final 6 marks the lower-right cell of a 23 tile; repeat tiles to make a picture or chart.
UK teletext, a TV information service developed in the early 1970s, and home computers from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s used 23 mosaics for graphics.
Why does 🬞 show as a box?
The font or terminal may not draw this glyph.
As of 2026, font and terminal support still varies: its text may remain while the glyph shows as a placeholder. Some terminals draw the blocks themselves.
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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 🬞
- Search it as
- sextant · terminal graphics · text graphics · block mosaic
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🬞\1FB1ECodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.