What 🭕 means
It is one cell in a screen mosaic.
Teletext began in the early 1970s as a broadcast service for text and simple graphics. A 1983 North American Videotex/Teletext standard describes mosaic elements shown joined or separated; Unicode maps this smooth-mosaic form to position 63 in Teletext's G3 set of smooth shapes.
In terminal art, neighboring cells combine into pictures, borders, charts, or game screens. On its own, 🭕 has no fixed conversational meaning.
Part of the collection
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Questions people ask
1Why does 🭕 show as a box?
Some fonts omit this legacy graphics character, so the text system may show a missing-glyph box instead.
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╲Box Drawings Light Diagonal Upper Left To Lower Right
╱Box Drawings Light Diagonal Upper Right To Lower Left
🭓Upper Right Block Diagonal Lower Middle Left To Lower Right
🭔Upper Right Block Diagonal Upper Middle Left To Lower Centre
🭖Upper Right Block Diagonal Upper Left To Lower Centre
␀Symbol For Null
␁Symbol For Start Of Heading
␂Symbol For Start Of Text
␃Symbol For End Of Text
␄Symbol For End Of TransmissionCollections with 🭕
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How to type or find 🭕
- Search it as
- teletext · videotex · mosaic tile · terminal art · G3 graphics
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
🭕CSS
\1FB55Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🭕
HTML hex
🭕
CSS content
content: "\1FB55";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AD%95
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On screen
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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.