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𜹠

separated block sextant-5

Separated Block Sextant-5

𜹠 is a separated block used as one mark in a low-resolution drawing. Teletext and home-computer graphics built pictures from six-cell mosaics inside text-sized spaces. This is the gapped version; its joined counterpart has a distinct character, 🬏.

Text symbol
Search it as
teletext · mosaic · pixel · tile · block
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 𜹠 means

It switches one of six cells in a character-sized picture grid on.

Here, “sextant” means a block mosaic divided into six cells. Teletext—a system that broadcast text pages to television screens—used this grid to draw simple graphics. The first UK Broadcast Teletext specification, from 1974, describes character-sized rectangles split into six cells, with code bits switching them on or off. Related block graphics appeared on home computers too. Teletext could show the cells touching or separated by gaps; this character keeps the separated form, while 🬏 is the joined form.

Don't confuse it with

4
𜹑
Separated Block Sextant-1
shares “block”, “separated”, “sextant”
𜹒
Separated Block Sextant-2
shares “block”, “separated”, “sextant”
𜹓
Separated Block Sextant-12
shares “block”, “separated”, “sextant”
𜹔
Separated Block Sextant-3
shares “block”, “separated”, “sextant”

Questions people ask

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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 1CE60, 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-5”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1ce60, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜹠
CSS
\1CE60
JavaScript
Use `String.fromCodePoint(0x1CE60)` to create it. As of 2026, `"𜹠".length` is 2 in JavaScript because strings count UTF-16 code units.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜹠
HTML hex
𜹠
CSS content
content: "\1CE60";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B9%A0
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.

Families this belongs to

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Legacy computing935 symbols

𜰀𜰁𜰂𜰃𜰄𜰅𜰆𜰇𜰈𜰉𜰊𜰋