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𜰤

separated block quadrant-3

Separated Block Quadrant-3

𜰤 is a separated lower-left block tile for making coarse screen pictures. On Sharp MZ computers, semigraphics assembled ready-made text blocks into a dot grid. Unicode preserves it as a text graphic for recreating that retro terminal art.

Text symbol
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sharp mz · mz-80k · semigraphics · terminal art · block graphics · text graphics · retro computer
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 𜰤 means

A separated lower-left tile for low-resolution screen graphics. It fills the lower-left quarter of a character cell and leaves a narrow gap at the cell edges.

The closest solid counterpart is ▖: same quarter, no gap.

What did 𜰤 do on Sharp MZ computers?

It helped turn a text grid into a simple picture. The glyph traces to display code F4 in the Japanese primary character set for Sharp MZ computers. The MZ-80K was manufactured 1978–1980; its 40×25 text grid could become an 80×50 dot picture when each cell was split into four rough graphic blocks. This tile was one of the ready-made pieces in the drawing set; Unicode keeps its role for compatibility and text-based graphics.

Don't confuse it with

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▖
Quadrant Lower Left
▖ is the solid lower-left quadrant counterpart; it fills the same part of a cell but meets the edges instead of leaving 𜰤’s gap.

Questions people ask

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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 1CC24, 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-3”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1cc24, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜰤
CSS
\1CC24
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜰤
HTML hex
𜰤
CSS content
content: "\1CC24";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B0%A4
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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.

Families this belongs to

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Legacy computing935 symbols

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