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left and lower one eighth block

Left and Lower One Eighth Block

🭼 is a block-graphics tile for pictures built from text cells. In text art, it works as one piece of a larger image.

Text symbol
Search it as
block graphics · retro computer · terminal graphics · text art · mosaic graphics
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 🭼 means

It is one small piece of a character-cell picture.

This exact tile appears in character sets for Ohio Scientific, Robotron Z9001, and the main Japanese display set on Sharp MZ computers. Home computers from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s used built-in shapes to draw pictures and interface details in text cells; neighboring tiles were designed to meet cleanly.

Why does 🭼 show as a box?

The font or terminal may not draw this character.

As of 2026, some terminal emulators draw legacy symbols themselves when fonts omit them; a missing-glyph box can mean the selected font lacks this character.

Don't confuse it with

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🭿
Right And Lower One Eighth Block
shares “block”, “eighth”, “lower”, “one”
🮀
Upper And Lower One Eighth Block
shares “block”, “eighth”, “lower”, “one”
🮵
Leftwards Arrow And Upper And Lower One Eighth Block
shares “block”, “eighth”, “lower”, “one”
🮶
Rightwards Arrow And Upper And Lower One Eighth Block
shares “block”, “eighth”, “lower”, “one”

Questions people ask

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Why 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 1FB7C, 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 “left and lower one eighth block”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fb7c, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🭼
CSS
\1FB7C
Word for Windows (as of 2026)
Type `1FB7C`, then press `Alt+X`.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🭼
HTML hex
🭼
CSS content
content: "\1FB7C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AD%BC
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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

𜰀𜰁𜰂𜰃𜰄𜰅𜰆𜰇𜰈𜰉𜰊𜰋