What means
It marks the cell’s lower-left corner. It fills half the bottom quarter. Joined with other pieces, it makes semigraphics: rough pictures built from character tiles.
For old home computers from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s, block characters could draw in text cells where pixel graphics were limited. Teletext—TV pages broadcast as text and simple mosaics—used them too. Unicode encoded basic blocks and box-drawing characters in 1991 for compatibility; a 2021 proposal added more legacy computer and teletext sets for preservation and emulation.
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Questions people ask
1Do fonts draw the same way?
No. Unicode 16.0’s chart gives an example, not a required shape, so fonts can differ. A 2021 Cascadia Code discussion notes that font fallback can misalign nearby block pieces.
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How to type or find
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- tile · pixel · terminal · semigraphics · pseudographics
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜺣\1CEA3Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.