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.
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.
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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
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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.