What means
It fills one text cell as a tile in a larger graphic. Solid and shaded block graphics were encoded in the Unicode standard in 1991 for compatibility with established computer character sets and terminal software. A 2021 proposal gathered additional graphics from home computers and teletext, the television service for broadcasting pages of text and simple block graphics. The proposal’s editors coined descriptive names for many shapes because manufacturers often published character charts or screen images without naming every glyph.
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Questions people ask
1Why does show up as an empty box?
Your font may not include its glyph. Microsoft added support for more legacy-computing symbols to Cascadia Code in 2024, but font coverage varies; another font may render this tile.
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▐Right Half BlockRight Half Upper One Quarter BlockUpper Half Right One Quarter BlockLower Three Quarters Right One Quarter Block
␀Symbol For Null
␁Symbol For Start Of Heading
␂Symbol For Start Of Text
␃Symbol For End Of Text
␄Symbol For End Of TransmissionHow to type or find
- Search it as
- block graphics · text graphics · semigraphics · mosaic tile · pixel tile
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜺭\1CEAD𜺭 in the page source where it should appear.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.