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upper three eighths block

Upper Three Eighths Block

🮃 fills the top three eighths of a fixed-width text cell. It served as a PETSCII screen graphic on Commodore computers; Unicode preserves it for converting legacy character data.

Text symbol
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c64 · commodore · petscii · c64 graphics · commodore graphics · petscii graphics · screen graphics · text graphics
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 🮃 means

It fills the top three eighths of one character cell.

A character cell is one slot in a text grid; partial blocks let old computers assemble larger screen graphics from pieces. On the Commodore 64, this tile belonged to PETSCII, its screen-character set.

PETSCII was used on Commodore home computers from the PET (1977) through the C128 (1985). Unicode later included legacy graphics like this so character data could move between older systems and Unicode, and developers could build pseudo-graphic text displays.

Don't confuse it with

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🭨
Upper And Right And Lower Triangular Three Quarters Block
shares “block”, “three”, “upper”
🭪
Upper And Left And Lower Triangular Three Quarters Block
shares “block”, “three”, “upper”
🭫
Left And Upper And Right Triangular Three Quarters Block
shares “block”, “three”, “upper”
🮄
Upper Five Eighths Block
shares “block”, “eighths”, “upper”

Questions people ask

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Why does 🮃 show as a box?

A box usually means your current font setup has no glyph for 🮃. The text can still contain the symbol; the box is a rendering fallback, not a different character.

How to type 🮃

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1FB83, 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 three eighths block”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fb83, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🮃
CSS
\1FB83
Commodore 64
C64: C= + U means holding the Commodore-logo key (marked C=) and pressing U; it enters the PETSCII graphic, not Unicode 🮃. For this Unicode character, use the Copy button.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🮃
HTML hex
🮃
CSS content
content: "\1FB83";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AE%83
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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.

Families this belongs to

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Legacy computing935 symbols

𜰀𜰁𜰂𜰃𜰄𜰅𜰆𜰇𜰈𜰉𜰊𜰋