What 🭮 means
A triangular tile for drawing inside a character grid. Teletext put simple text and pictures on TV pages. It began in the UK in the early 1970s and became familiar across Europe.
The 2019 Unicode proposal sought to preserve these characters so old computer and teletext graphics could be converted reliably. Modern text displays can also use adjoining shapes for small pictures and filled charts.
Why does 🭮 show as a box?
The font or terminal may lack its glyph. As of 2026, terminal support for smooth-mosaic characters varies: some emulators draw them themselves; others do not. If the font lacks 🭮 too, it can appear as a missing-glyph box.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions 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 🭮
🭮\1FB6ECodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.