What means
Its filled quarters sit at the upper-right and lower-left.
A quadrant is one of four equal parts of a square. This mark is one cell in the grid; neighboring cells can complete a larger, low-resolution picture.
Why does have a gap?
The gap marks a separated-cell graphic style.
Block characters like this belong to text-mode semigraphics: small cells arranged on a character grid approximate larger screen pictures.
The 1974 Broadcast Teletext specification defined mosaic graphics with six cells in a 2-by-3 grid. Its separated mode left background color around and between the cells. This character uses a four-part tile, part of the broader tradition rather than Teletext's exact six-cell design.
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Don't confuse it with
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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.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- teletext · mosaic · semigraphics
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜰦\1CC26Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.