What 🭸 means
It filled one row in a fixed text grid.
Block graphics arranged whole character cells, not pixels. Partial blocks let early computers sketch graphs and simple shapes.
The Unicode proposal maps it to position 43 in Commodore PET/VIC-20 and C64/C128 sets. PET dates to 1977; later systems kept this graphic role.
How is it different from a line?
It belongs to an eight-row cell.
Horizontal scan-line characters use nine-row cells. Mixing the grids can misalign a composed drawing.
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-5
shares “block”, “eighth”, “horizontal”, “one”
Horizontal One Eighth Block-6
shares “block”, “eighth”, “horizontal”, “one”
Combination ideas
1Designed: repeat it in adjacent cells to make a longer strip.
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.
How to type 🭸
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1FB78, 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-4”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fb78, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🭸CSS
\1FB78Word for Windows
Type 1FB78 and press Alt+X in Word for Windows; Microsoft documents this method as of 2026.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🭸
HTML hex
🭸
CSS content
content: "\1FB78";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AD%B8
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.