Upper Right Block Diagonal Tile

Use a Unicode input tool in your editor.

Enter U+1FB63; the exact shortcut depends on your operating system. In a text file or source code, place the literal character where the tile belongs.

If it appears as a box or blank, the active font may not include the glyph. Fonts with legacy-computing character coverage can draw it, and their diagonals may differ slightly.

What does 🭣 mean?

It marks a partial diagonal tile in a text-mode drawing.

Think of it as one piece inside a text cell: place it beside other partial blocks to trace a sloped edge or corner. Together, the tiles build a low-resolution picture; alone, this one gives a shape but no subject.

How was 🭣 used before Unicode?

It helped teletext and home computers draw pictures on text grids.

This semigraphic family has documented roots in teletext, developed in the early 1970s, and home computers made from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Those systems used small blocks in a text grid to draw pictures without assigning a separate text cell to every pixel.

The later Unicode proposal aimed to preserve old character sets through conversion to Unicode and back without loss, and to support emulators, cross-assemblers (tools that translate programs for different processors), and text-mode graphics software. The role shifted from a display component on particular systems to a portable character for recreating their graphics.