What 🭫 means
It is one tile for forming pictures from text characters.
Teletext used mosaic cells for semigraphics: images assembled on a text grid. 🭫 fills the left, upper, and right triangular quarters, leaving the lower one open. Beside other cells, it contributes a patch to a larger picture.
Where did 🭫 come from?
Its documented home is teletext’s G3 graphics set.
British teletext grew from broadcast experiments in the early 1970s; mosaic cells let information pages show simple weather maps and diagrams. The Teletext G3 position 3D appears in the smooth-mosaic and line-drawing set described by ETSI’s 2002 Enhanced Teletext specification.
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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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⬛Black Large Square
▀Upper Half Block
🭩Left And Lower And Right Triangular Three Quarters Block
🭪Upper And Left And Lower Triangular Three Quarters Block
🭬Left Triangular One Quarter Block
␀Symbol For Null
␁Symbol For Start Of Heading
␂Symbol For Start Of Text
␃Symbol For End Of Text
␄Symbol For End Of TransmissionCollections with 🭫
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How to type or find 🭫
- Search it as
- teletext · mosaic · semigraphics · pseudographics · textmode
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🭫\1FB6BCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.