What means
Enter its Unicode hexadecimal code in a supported text field. In Word for Windows, type 1CE7B and press Alt+X (documented as of 2026). In GTK, hold Ctrl+Shift, type u1CE7B, and release the modifiers (documented as of 2026). This enters one character: a separated mosaic tile.
What does this 1-2-4-6 mosaic mean?
It is a six-cell building block for small graphics. Imagine a two-column, three-row grid: fill both top cells, then the right cell in each lower row. A background gap remains around every filled cell; “sextant” means the six-part block. Its reading comes from the larger picture made with neighboring tiles.
British Teletext, developed in the early 1970s to send information pages over television, used 2×3 mosaics for simple graphics. In 2021, a proposal to Unicode sought to encode the separated tiles for compatibility with an existing private-use mapping—a local assignment of graphics to reserved Unicode code points.
Why are these mosaic cells separated?
The gaps mark a separate display style. Teletext could switch one mosaic set between contiguous cells that touch and separated cells edged by background color. Unicode encodes this tile as the separated form; 🬨 is its matching 1-2-4-6 pattern with touching cells. Neighboring sextant tiles can be arranged into larger low-resolution pictures.
Don't confuse it with
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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
𜹻\1CE7BCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.