What means
On a fixed-width screen, each letter sits in a same-sized character cell. fills just one of its sixteen small squares; neighboring pieces can form larger shapes.
Cell graphics came first. British teletext used 23 mosaics for TV pages from the early 1970s; France's Minitel, a phone-line information service introduced in the early 1980s, also used block graphics. This finer 44 tile joined Unicode in 2024.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does show as an empty box?
The selected font or app lacks a glyph for it. Coverage varies; try a font supporting Unicode 16.0 block symbols.
More like this
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- block graphics · teletext · semigraphics
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𜺐CSS
\1CE90Word for Windows
In Microsoft Word, type
1CE90 and press Alt+X (Word 2016–2024 and Microsoft 365; as of 2026).Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
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HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\1CE90";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%BA%90
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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.