What means
Every position except 2 is filled. The digits follow the six cells of a two-column, three-row grid, read row by row. Set beside other mosaic tiles, this pattern contributes one patch to rough artwork or a chart.
Why are there gaps between the cells?
In the 1970s, Teletext pages used mosaic tiles for weather maps, graphs, and charts.
The 1974 Broadcast Teletext specification defined two display styles: contiguous cells touch; in separated mode, each cell sits inside a border of background colour.
In 2021, a Unicode proposal called for these separated patterns to have individual characters, so Teletext emulators and older software could retain them. Some programs had assigned their own private-use code points—reserved slots for local definitions—to these tiles.
A diagram tile for low-resolution art, charts, and terminal graphics.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions 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.
How to type
𜺍\1CE8DCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.