What means
It was a preset tile for building pictures on a character-cell screen. “One-sixteenth” is literal: imagine the screen space for one character divided into a 44 grid. This glyph fills just one square in that grid.
Semigraphics means drawing with ready-made text shapes instead of setting every screen pixel separately. The placement matters: sibling tiles fill different positions and together make a finer screen pattern.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
1Questions 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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How to type or find
- Search it as
- semigraphics · pseudographics · quasigraphics · mosaic · pixel · graphics · block · terminal
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
𜺑CSS
\1CE91Unicode picker
Use a Unicode-aware character picker; search the name or U1CE91. UTF-16 stores it as a surrogate pair, not one 16-bit unit.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
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HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\1CE91";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%BA%91
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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.