What means
It fills the lower-middle-right spot in a four-by-four character cell.
Each character in this set fills one of 16 positions; mixed across neighboring cells, they let a text screen draw coarse graphics.
The Robotron Z9001 character set included this exact tile at byte DB. This East German computer was first produced in 1984. A 2021 Unicode proposal supplied the descriptive name associated with the character.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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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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- Search it as
- robotron · z9001 · graphics · mosaic · semigraphics · tile
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
𜺛CSS
\1CE9BRobotron data
On the Z9001 (1984), DB is the local byte for this tile, not a Unicode input code.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜺛
HTML hex
𜺛
CSS content
content: "\1CE9B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%BA%9B
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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.