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🮵

leftwards arrow and upper and lower one eighth block

Left Arrow with Eighth-Block Bars

🮵 is a left-pointing arrow with slim bars at the top and bottom of its cell. It was an Apple II MouseText graphic for mouse-based desktop controls in text mode.

Text symbol

What 🮵 means

Its original 88 top stroke was incomplete.

Apple's December 1983 Apple IIc manual lists 32 MouseText graphics, noting they moved faster than dot-by-dot pictures. Apple's January 1989 developer note says the set let Apple II software draw desktop-style interfaces on text screens.

Unicode's 2019 proposal identifies this as an Apple MouseText arrow and explains the change: Apple II's top line was incomplete, while the Unicode chart shows a fuller, still-gapped stroke. The redraw preserves the character's identity and supports converting legacy text.

Part of the collection

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Retro Computer & Teletext Symbols

Questions people ask

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 or find 🮵

Search it as: mousetext arrow · apple ii mouse text · legacy text graphic
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

Windows (Word)

⎇Alt+XType 1FBB5, then AltX 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 “leftwards arrow and upper and lower one eighth block”.

Linux

⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 1fbb5, then Enter or Space.

HTML

🮵

CSS

\1FBB5

Typing 🮵 in Word for Windows

Enter 1FBB5, then press AltX; select only the code first if hexadecimal digits touch it.

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

🮵

HTML hex

🮵

CSS content

content: "\1FBB5";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%F0%9F%AE%B5

On screen

Code points

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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

Legacy computing935 symbols

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