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🮉

right five eighths block

Right Five Eighths Block

🮉 fills five eighths of a cell from the right, leaving the left open. It builds terminal graphics from text-only tiles.

Text symbol

Search it as: block character · terminal graphics · text-mode graphics
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 🮉 means

A fractional fill tile for text-mode pictures.

Adjacent characters can complete a bar or image; this one defines only its own cell.

Where did this shape come from?

It belongs to an older screen-graphics family.

Teletext, an early TV information service, sent simple block graphics from the early 1970s. Home computers also drew with character cells. In 2019, Unicode contributors proposed this legacy set to preserve old text and support emulators and text-mode apps. They supplied descriptive names because original manuals often showed unlabeled charts.

A technical display symbol for diagrams and text art.

If the shape is missing, check font coverage: BabelStone Shapes v. 15.0.0 includes 🮉.

Don't confuse it with

▋

Left Five Eighths Block

▋ fills from the left; 🮉 fills from the right.

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 🮉

Windows (Word)

Alt+XType 1FB89, 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 “right five eighths block”.

Linux

Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fb89, then Enter or Space.

HTML

🮉

CSS

\1FB89

HTML

Use the HTML entity for 🮉 by writing `🮉` in the source.

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

🮉

HTML hex

🮉

CSS content

content: "\1FB89";

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

URL encoded

%F0%9F%AE%89

On screen

Code points

JS .length

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

𜰀𜰁𜰂𜰃𜰄𜰅𜰆𜰇𜰈𜰉𜰊𜰋