What 🮂 means
It fills the top quarter of one character cell.
Terminal graphics used semi-graphics: small preset blocks arranged in cells to suggest pixel images. The wider set covers home microcomputers from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s and teletext, a broadcast system for text and graphics.
Unicode's 2021 source table maps this fill in Kaypro, Ohio Scientific, Robotron Z9001 and Sharp MZ character sets. Their numeric codes differ across systems.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
1Designed: three text cells make a top-edge strip.
Questions people ask
1Why does it show as a box?
Your font may lack its glyph, so the app substitutes a missing-character box. A font with support can display it.
How to type 🮂
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1FB82, then Alt+X to get 🮂.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “upper one quarter block”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fb82, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🮂CSS
\1FB82Code
JavaScript uses `\u{1FB82}`; JSON uses `\uD83E\uDF82`.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🮂
HTML hex
🮂
CSS content
content: "\1FB82";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AE%82
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.