What means
It fills the upper-centre quarter of a character cell. Each cell is the fixed-size slot that holds one character on a text grid.
Ohio Scientific’s 1978 graphics manual lists this shape in the computer’s character set. Unicode preserves the old mapping so text files and emulators can represent those legacy graphics.
Part of the collection
Combination ideas
1Designed row of three matching upper-centre patches.
Questions people ask
1Can I type AC to get ?
No. AC is the Ohio Scientific character-set slot mapped to this graphic, not a key sequence for entering it in Unicode text.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- osi · block graphics · terminal graphics · text graphics · character graphics
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
🯤CSS
\1FBE4Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🯤
HTML hex
🯤
CSS content
content: "\1FBE4";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AF%A4
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.