Upper and Left and Lower Triangular Three Quarters Block

It is a building tile for text graphics, not a chat signal. The cell splits into four triangles; 🭪 fills upper, left, and lower, leaving the right one open. Unicode keeps it so old terminals — and their modern fans — can still draw with it.

The shape traces to Teletext, a U.K. service invented in the early 1970s that broadcast text and simple mosaic pictures to televisions. France's Minitel ran the same block graphics from the early 1980s until 2012 — the triangles bought those chunky grids smoother diagonals.

What does it mean when someone sends it?

It means they are drawing, not emoting.

As of 2026, smooth-mosaic tiles turn up in terminal art, filled shapes, charts, and sparklines. A lone 🭪 is most likely a drawing fragment or a retro-computing wink — ask what was being sketched before hunting for a feeling.

Why does it show as a box or look different?

The font decides whether the glyph exists at all.

As of 2026, many fonts still skip the legacy-computing block, so 🭪 can render as an empty box — a missing glyph, not another character. Some terminals draw these shapes themselves, so the tile sits flush in one app and padded in the next.