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𜹰

separated block sextant-6

Separated Sextant Tile 6

𜹰 is the lower-right block of a six-part mosaic tile, separated from the rest by a small gap. Teletext used these cells as tiny building blocks for screen graphics.

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What 𜹰 means

One cell in a six-part picture grid. Teletext sent pages of information through TV broadcasts. Its graphics used cells divided into two columns and three rows; “sextant” names this six-part grid, and 6 marks the lower-right part. “Separated” means a background-colored border surrounds the lit block.

In a 1973 BBC Ceefax prototype, block characters outlined a weather map; Ceefax was the BBC’s early teletext service. A shared Teletext standard followed in 1976, describing the wider mosaic system. Its small cells let designers draw maps, charts, and simple pictures on TV screens; 𜹰 preserves one separated tile from that graphics set.

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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 1CE70, 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-6”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1ce70, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜹰
CSS
\1CE70
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜹰
HTML hex
𜹰
CSS content
content: "\1CE70";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B9%B0
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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.

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