What 🭗 means
It fills the upper-left corner above a sloping edge. The diagonal runs from the upper part of the character cell’s left edge to the centre of its top edge. The cell is the rectangular space reserved for one character; the triangle occupies only part of it.
This piece belongs to Teletext’s G3 graphics set. Teletext, developed in Britain in the early 1970s, delivered text and simple pictures through television broadcasts. Its “smooth mosaic” pieces use diagonal edges to make outlines less blocky when characters are arranged in a grid.
Unicode preserves these pieces so older graphics can remain text, including in emulators and text-mode drawings. The filled triangle follows the text colour: it need not be black.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why do I see a box instead of 🭗?
Your font or app may not support this character. Use a font that includes Symbols for Legacy Computing; a missing-character box is not the triangle’s intended shape.
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╲Box Drawings Light Diagonal Upper Left To Lower Right
╱Box Drawings Light Diagonal Upper Right To Lower Left
🭕Upper Right Block Diagonal Upper Middle Left To Lower Right
🭖Upper Right Block Diagonal Upper Left To Lower Centre
🭘Upper Left Block Diagonal Upper Middle Left To Upper Right
␀Symbol For Null
␁Symbol For Start Of Heading
␂Symbol For Start Of Text
␃Symbol For End Of Text
␄Symbol For End Of TransmissionCollections with 🭗
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How to type or find 🭗
- Search it as
- black triangle · upper left triangle · teletext · G3 · smooth mosaic · right angled triangle · triangular wedge
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🭗\1FB57Why is 🭗 a box on my screen?
fsymbols draws rare signs with its own fonts, so they show here even where your device has none. An app or website without such a font shows an empty box (□) or a question mark instead. Turn our fonts off to see each sign as your device draws it by itself: a box here means a box in your chats and documents too.
Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.