What means
In a GTK text field: press CtrlShiftU, enter 1CE62, then press Enter.
GTK is a toolkit used by some Linux apps; this sequence works in text fields with Unicode hexadecimal input enabled.
What does show?
It fills the upper-right and lower-left cells in a six-cell tile.
Picture each Teletext character position as a rectangle split into two columns and three rows. The other four cells stay in the background color, while neighboring tiles supply the larger picture. On its own, this is a graphic component, not a pictogram with one fixed meaning.
Why does the mosaic have gaps?
Separated mode leaves background color between the lit blocks.
Teletext began in the UK in the early 1970s as a broadcast service for information pages with text and simple graphics. Its initial British specification appeared in October 1974; the 1976 revision describes six-cell graphics for simple pictures in touching or separated forms. Teletext became commonplace across Europe until the adoption of digital television. A Unicode proposal in 2021 explains that distinct separated characters let emulators and existing software preserve this display.
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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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𜹢\1CE62CtrlShiftU, enter 1CE62, then press Enter.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.