What means
A pattern filling four cells of a 2 3 grid, with gaps between them. “2456” identifies the filled cells; the character is designed as one piece of a larger screen graphic.
Teletext began in the UK in the early 1970s, broadcasting pages of text and simple graphics to televisions. Its 2 3 mosaic set could use “separated graphics,” with a narrow gap between filled cells. The 2021 Unicode proposal recorded these distinct shapes so teletext software could reproduce them and stay compatible with existing private-use encodings.
As of 2026, Ratatui, a toolkit for text-mode interfaces, documents characters in this six-cell mosaic set as tiny pixels for chart markers. There, the mosaic builds data plots instead of TV pages.
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Questions 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.
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- teletext · mosaic · graphics · terminal · pixel · blocks
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜺊\1CE8ACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.