What 🭡 means
🭡 is a Teletext-style tile that fills part of a character cell.
Teletext, a broadcast text service, began in the early 1970s. Its G3 set is a collection of graphic tiles; 🭡 is entry 74. Small filled regions lined up in character cells to make pictures and borders.
Unicode keeps these semigraphic tiles so text from Teletext and early home computers can still be represented. Each tile is one piece of a larger drawing.
Why does 🭡 show as a box?
A missing-character box means the available font cannot draw it.
The stored character stays the same; a font supplies the visible shape. If no available font covers 🭡, an app may show a blank square or replacement box.
This tile is built for a character cell. For multi-cell text art, a monospace font—one with equal-width characters—keeps diagonal pieces aligned; proportional spacing can pull them apart.
Technical and text-art use; by itself, it names one drawing tile rather than the larger shape built from a grid.
Combination ideas
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
- U+1FB61 · 1FB61 · teletext · semigraphics · text graphics · character-cell graphics · Unicode input
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🭡\1FB61Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.