What means
It fills one quarter of a character cell, low and centered.
A character cell is one slot in a text grid.
A 2021 proposal aimed to preserve forms for data conversion and emulators; it says vendors often did not name glyphs, so Unicode labels describe their shapes. The home-computer set reaches from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s.
Why is blank in my terminal?
Your font or emulator may not draw it.
As of September 2026, some terminals draw missing legacy glyphs themselves; others rely on the font.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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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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How to type or find
- Search it as
- terminal · text-mode · pixel-art
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
🯥CSS
\1FBE5How to type
As of September 2026: Word/Windows: type 1FBE5, press AltX; GTK apps: CtrlShiftU, 1FBE5, Enter; macOS: Character Viewer; Unicode Hex Input stops at four digits.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
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HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\1FBE5";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AF%A5
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.