What means
It was one filled tile in the Robotron Z9001's text graphics.
Robotron's East German Z9001 maps it as RT EF; the computer appeared in 1984. Its text display built pictures by combining filled cell pieces, like pixels. This block belongs to that mosaic tradition, and keeping it as text lets old graphics data retain its original shape across systems.
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Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box?
A missing-glyph box means the font or terminal cannot draw this character. Terminal support for these legacy symbols varies as of 2026; some terminal apps draw their shapes themselves instead of relying on the font.
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How to type or find
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- block · pixel · terminal · semigraphics · robotron · mosaic
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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macOS
HTML
𜺪CSS
\1CEAACodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
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HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\1CEAA";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%BA%AA
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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.