What 🭓 means
It is one cell in a Teletext drawing. Its filled area covers the upper-right of a cell; the boundary runs from low on the left edge to the lower-right corner. In a text-mode picture, it supplies one sloping piece of a larger shape.
Teletext is a broadcasting system that showed pages on television. This character belongs to its G3 smooth-mosaic set: G3 provides smooth-edged drawing tiles. Teletext developed in the early 1970s. Unicode's 2020 encoding preserves this older graphic tile; it did not create its original role.
Why does 🭓 look wrong?
A missing glyph or mixed fonts can break its shape. Its appearance comes from the font. If that font lacks the character, you may see an empty box; if fallback fonts supply adjacent tiles separately, their edges may not meet. For a picture, choose one fixed-width font that includes the other tiles too.
Can 🭓 form a larger shape?
Yes. It contributes one cell to a larger outline.
A 2020 Unicode public-review note described an upper-right triangle made from two diagonal cells, including this one, to reconstruct legacy computer art.
Technical and niche: it functions as a geometric tile in text-mode drawings.
Without a supporting font, it may display as an empty box.
Don't confuse it with
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Questions 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
- G3 · teletext · mosaic tile · text-mode art · terminal graphics · legacy computer graphics · diagonal tile · block mosaic
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🭓\1FB53Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.