What means
It is row two, column three in a 44 cell.
Across a text grid, block tiles form simple pictures. Early computers and teletext—information pages sent through television broadcasts—used the technique; the BBC's Ceefax service launched in 1974 with blocky, coloured pages.
A 2021 Unicode proposal framed this set as a way to preserve older character data, support emulators and extend text-mode graphics.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box on some devices?
It is recent: Unicode added it in version 16.0 (2024), and phones and computers whose fonts are older than that have nothing to draw it with. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
More like this
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- block graphics · mosaic graphics · semigraphics · text graphics · block elements · teletext graphics
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
𜺖CSS
\1CE96Character picker
Search its name or enter U1CE96 in a picker that supports supplementary-plane characters. A replacement box may mean the font lacks it.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
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HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\1CE96";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%BA%96
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.