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𜺎

separated block sextant-23456

Separated Block Sextant-23456

𜺎 is a six-cell mosaic with five filled blocks and narrow gaps. Teletext used tiles like this to build simple graphics. This Unicode character stores one fixed pattern; Teletext used a separate control code to switch separated mode.

Text symbol

Search it as: teletext · mosaic · separated · graphics · 2x3
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 𜺎 means

It is one tile in a low-resolution picture.

“Sextant” means a two-column, three-row mosaic; its digits name the filled cells. Teletext, a British broadcast service developed in the early 1970s, sent text and simple graphics to television. Its separated mode added background gaps around each cell. Placed side by side, tiles built low-resolution pictures.

Is 𜺎 a Teletext mode switch?

No. It encodes one fixed tile.

Teletext used a control code to switch later mosaic characters into separated mode. This Unicode character encodes a fixed tile for emulators and older software. Some programs stored these patterns in a private-use area, reserved for characters without a universal code.

Don't confuse it with

🬻

Block Sextant-23456

Same six-cell pattern; these blocks touch, while 𜺎 has narrow background gaps.

Questions people ask

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 1CE8E, 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 sextant-23456”.

Linux

Ctrl+Shift+UType 1ce8e, then Enter or Space.

HTML

𜺎

CSS

\1CE8E

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

𜺎

HTML hex

𜺎

CSS content

content: "\1CE8E";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%F0%9C%BA%8E

On screen

Code points

JS .length

UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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