What 🮐 means
It filled text cells so programs could draw screen graphics.
The pattern appears in Commodore’s PETSCII and in Apple II and Sinclair sets. Semigraphics—blocks and shades arranged like coarse pixels—let software make pictures in a text grid. Unicode cross-references 🮐 to ▒ MEDIUM SHADE, its related regular-fill form, but keeps this inverse legacy character distinct.
Don't confuse it with
4Combination ideas
1Suggested texture: alternate inverse and regular fills in text art.
Questions people ask
1Why is this an empty box?
It usually means the font or app cannot draw this character. The box is a fallback display; the text can still contain the exact character.
How to type 🮐
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1FB90, 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 “inverse medium shade”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fb90, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🮐CSS
\1FB90Unicode text
Use the Copy button. For old Commodore, Apple II, or Sinclair files, convert with the source system’s character map; their byte codes differ.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🮐
HTML hex
🮐
CSS content
content: "\1FB90";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AE%90
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.