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𜰯

separated block quadrant-1234

Separated Block Quadrant-1234

𜰯 is a filled 2×2 mosaic tile, with a narrow gap between its four sections. Japanese Sharp MZ computers used this kind of block graphics to sketch small pictures on text screens.

Text symbol

Search it as: semigraphics · block graphics · mosaic graphics · text mode graphics · retro computer graphics
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 𜰯 means

It filled one character cell as four separate blocks. Semigraphics—pictures built from block-shaped text characters—let early home computers sketch images on text screens. Sharp's MZ-80K launched in 1978 and could show an 80 × 50-dot semigraphic image alongside text.

A 2021 Unicode proposal maps this tile from display code FF in the Japanese primary set for Sharp MZ computers, preserving it for conversion and emulator support. Teletext, a British television text service developed in the early 1970s, supported a related gap-separated mosaic mode.

Don't confuse it with

█

Full Block

𜰯 vs █: 𜰯 has four separated quadrants; █ is one uninterrupted fill.

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 1CC2F, 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 “separated block quadrant-1234”.

Linux

Ctrl+Shift+UType 1cc2f, then Enter or Space.

HTML

𜰯

CSS

\1CC2F

Unicode hex input

In an app with Unicode hexadecimal entry, enter `1CC2F`; Sharp MZ's Japanese primary character set used display code `FF`.

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

𜰯

HTML hex

𜰯

CSS content

content: "\1CC2F";

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

URL encoded

%F0%9C%B0%AF

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

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