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horizontal one eighth block-1358

MouseText title-bar tile

Apple used 🮁 as a small MouseText graphic to build the patterned title bar of an active Apple IIGS window. Two horizontal stripes can carry a repeating design, so the bar is not limited to plain solid blocks.

Text symbol
Also called
window title bar
Search it as
mousetext · iigs · titlebar · semigraphics · textmode
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 🮁 means

It formed the patterned strip for an active window’s title bar.

MouseText was Apple’s set of small graphics for drawing desktop-style interfaces on Apple II text screens. An October 1986 Apple IIGS developer note describes lined title bars and leaves a gap in the pattern for the separate title text.

A text screen gives each character a fixed-size cell. The 1/3/5/8 in this symbol’s Unicode name mark four horizontal bands in that cell; the third and fifth can use any repeating pattern, not just solid blocks.

Don't confuse it with

4
🭶
Horizontal One Eighth Block-2
shares “block”, “eighth”, “horizontal”, “one”
🭷
Horizontal One Eighth Block-3
shares “block”, “eighth”, “horizontal”, “one”
🭸
Horizontal One Eighth Block-4
shares “block”, “eighth”, “horizontal”, “one”
🭹
Horizontal One Eighth Block-5
shares “block”, “eighth”, “horizontal”, “one”

Questions people ask

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Does 🮁 contain the window’s title text?

No. It supplies the patterned bar; the title is separate text. Apple’s IIGS guidance leaves spaces around title strings so the letters open a clean gap in the repeating pattern.

How to type 🮁

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1FB81, 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 “horizontal one eighth block-1358”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fb81, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🮁
CSS
\1FB81
Linux (GTK)
As of 2026, GTK text fields accept Unicode hex entry: press `Ctrl`+`Shift`+`U`, type `1FB81`, then `Space` or `Enter`.
macOS Unicode Hex Input
As of 2026, Apple’s Unicode Hex Input method stops at four hex digits; use Character Viewer for this character.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🮁
HTML hex
🮁
CSS content
content: "\1FB81";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AE%81
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.

Families this belongs to

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Legacy computing935 symbols

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