What means
It is one six-cell picture tile. A “sextant” is a character box split into two columns and three rows; fills the right column and leaves the left empty, with narrow background gutters. The United Kingdom developed Teletext in the early 1970s to broadcast information pages with simple graphics. By September 1976, the Broadcast Teletext Specification described these mosaics for such pictures. Unicode later encoded the separated display as a character to keep teletext software compatible.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box?
Your font may lack this glyph. Cascadia Code added the separated sextant range in April 2024; a font covering that range can display it.
How to type
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1CE88, 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-456”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1ce88, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜺈CSS
\1CE88Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜺈
HTML hex
𜺈
CSS content
content: "\1CE88";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%BA%88
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.