What means
The digits mark which cells are filled. A sextant here is a six-cell tile arranged in two columns and three rows: positions 1 and 6 are the upper-left and lower-right cells. Its separated style draws each cell as an inset square.
Teletext was a TV service for broadcasting pages of text and simple graphics. British Teletext used 23 mosaic blocks by the early 1970s; a 1974 specification names separated mode for these tiles.
Unicode 16.0 encoded the separated forms to help teletext emulators and older software that had stored them in private-use codes. These codes are assigned by individual systems, so the same code can mean different things in different programs; a standard character keeps the pattern stable between compatible text apps.
A specialist graphic tile for old Teletext pages and their emulators.
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Questions people ask
1Why does it show as a box?
A box means the active font or fallback stack cannot draw it. Cascadia Code 2404.23 added the separated sextants, including this one; other fonts may support it too.
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- teletext · mosaic graphics · separated mosaics · block graphics · 2x3 graphics · pixel tile · retro graphics · terminal graphics
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜹱\1CE71Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.