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𜺘

lower middle left one sixteenth block

Lower Middle Left One Sixteenth Block

𜺘 fills one square in a 4×4 mosaic made from text characters. The Robotron Z9001 used built-in graphic tiles like this to draw small pictures on its text screen; this one survives as a distinct Unicode character.

Text symbol
Search it as
block graphics · pixel art · terminal graphics · mosaic block · robotron
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 𜺘 means

It marks the leftmost cell of a 4×4 block's third row.

Think of a square divided into four rows and four columns. The Robotron Z9001, a home computer made in East Germany, used a fixed character set to place graphic cells like this together and draw simple pictures on its text screen.

Robotron presented the Z9001 publicly in 1984. The machine's own code for this tile was D8 (hexadecimal); Unicode preserves the same cell as a distinct text character for old computer data, emulators, and text-mode graphics.

Don't confuse it with

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𜺙
Lower Middle Centre Left One Sixteenth Block
shares “block”, “lower”, “middle”, “one”, “sixteenth”
𜺚
Lower Middle Centre Right One Sixteenth Block
shares “block”, “lower”, “middle”, “one”, “sixteenth”
𜺛
Lower Middle Right One Sixteenth Block
shares “block”, “lower”, “middle”, “one”, “sixteenth”
𜺔
Upper Middle Left One Sixteenth Block
shares “block”, “middle”, “one”, “sixteenth”

Questions people ask

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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 𜺘

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1CE98, then Alt+X 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 “lower middle left one sixteenth block”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1ce98, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜺘
CSS
\1CE98
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜺘
HTML hex
𜺘
CSS content
content: "\1CE98";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%BA%98
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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.

Families this belongs to

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Legacy computing935 symbols

𜰀𜰁𜰂𜰃𜰄𜰅𜰆𜰇𜰈𜰉𜰊𜰋