What means
It marks the lower-right cell of a four-part mosaic. “Separated” means the dark patch leaves a narrow gap.
Teletext, a British TV text service, developed in the early 1970s and used mosaics for simple graphics, with cells joined or apart. Home computers also arranged blocks like coarse pixels, a method called semigraphics. Encoding separated cells separately lets text and emulators preserve their gaps.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does this symbol show as a box?
It can be a font issue: the active font may lack this glyph. Cascadia Code added the separated quadrant range in April 2024.
How to type
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1CC28, 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-4”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1cc28, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜰨CSS
\1CC28GTK Unicode input
In an app built with GTK (a desktop app toolkit) with Unicode entry enabled, press Ctrl+Shift+U, type 1cc28, then press Enter.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜰨
HTML hex
𜰨
CSS content
content: "\1CC28";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B0%A8
1
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.