What 🮗 means
It fills part of a cell in larger text graphics.
This drawing style is older than the Unicode character. Early teletext in the early 1970s used blocks as rough pixels for weather maps, charts, and pictures. A cell is one character-sized spot in the screen grid. Home computers used similar cells when screens could not draw arbitrary pixels; Unicode preserves such patterns to represent those systems in text.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 🮗 show as a box on some devices?
It is recent: Unicode added it in version 13.0 (2020), and phones and computers whose fonts are older than that have nothing to draw it with. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find 🮗
- Search it as
- block fill · cell graphics · teletext graphics · text art
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
🮗CSS
\1FB97HTML numeric reference
Write
🮗 in HTML source; the browser resolves the character reference when rendering the page.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🮗
HTML hex
🮗
CSS content
content: "\1FB97";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AE%97
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On screen
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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.