What 🮈 means
Use the Copy button for text or a Unicode escape in code. JavaScript uses \u{1FB88}; Python uses \U0001FB88; HTML source uses 🮈.
What was 🮈 made for?
It let text screens build rough pictures from character cells.
PETSCII was Commodore’s built-in character set. Filled characters could sit side by side like tiles, letting a row of text cells sketch part of a larger picture without plotting every pixel.
Don't confuse it with
4🮃🭨🭩🭪
Upper Three Eighths Block
shares “block”, “eighths”, “three”
Upper And Right And Lower Triangular Three Quarters Block
shares “block”, “three”
Left And Lower And Right Triangular Three Quarters Block
shares “block”, “three”
Upper And Left And Lower Triangular Three Quarters Block
shares “block”, “three”
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.
How to type 🮈
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1FB88, 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 three eighths block”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fb88, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🮈CSS
\1FB88Plain text
Use the Copy button for this exact character.
JavaScript
Write `\u{1FB88}` in a string; it escapes this Unicode code point.
Python
Write `\U0001FB88` in a string; it uses an eight-digit Unicode escape.
HTML
Use `🮈` as a hexadecimal numeric character reference.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🮈
HTML hex
🮈
CSS content
content: "\1FB88";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AE%88
1
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.