What means
It fills one small part of a text character’s space.
Unicode already had block and shading shapes in 1991 to preserve compatibility with computer character sets and terminal emulators, programs that reproduce older text screens. A 2021 proposal expanded the collection for more home-computer and teletext material.
Teletext, a service for sending text and simple graphics to television, took shape in the early 1970s; home computers from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s also used block graphics. Semigraphics makes pictures by filling parts of each on-screen character space and joining neighboring spaces. This character supplies one precise fill pattern for that grid.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does it show as a box or blank?
Your font may not include a drawing for this character. A blank or box is a display fallback; it does not replace the character stored in the text.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- block graphics · text graphics · text art · block fill · pixel graphics · mosaic graphics · teletext graphics · terminal graphics
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜺩\1CEA9Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.