What 🭥 means
It is one cell in a larger block-graphics picture.
Teletext was a broadcast text service that carried pages with television. Its G3 graphics set used mosaic tiles for simple illustrations; this tile supplies a diagonal edge. These graphics date to the early 1970s.
Unicode later encoded the tile so old Teletext data could be converted to Unicode and back, and so emulators and text-based graphics could preserve it. In a larger picture, neighboring tiles determine whether its edge continues.
How do I type this exact diagonal?
Search U1FB65 in a Unicode picker that accepts hexadecimal values.
For old Teletext data, G3 code 0x79 identifies this tile in the conversion table; it is a source identifier, not a modern keyboard shortcut.
A technical retro-computing or text-art character; in ordinary chat, it reads as decorative or accidental.
Sent alone, it can look like a missing-glyph box or stray paste.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
2Questions people ask
1Why is 🭥 blank or misaligned?
A font may lack this legacy tile, leaving a missing-glyph box; mixed-font fallback can also misalign neighboring tiles. A 2021 Cascadia Code issue documented that kind of alignment problem.
Collections with 🭥
1How to type or find 🭥
- Search it as
- Teletext symbol · Teletext G3 · mosaic tile · block diagonal · text graphics · Unicode diagonal character
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🭥\1FB65Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.







