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upper triangular one quarter block

Upper Triangular One Quarter Block

🭭 is an upper triangular quarter-block tile from old terminal graphics. In Teletext and Minitel mosaics, it filled one cell that could join neighboring cells into a larger picture. By itself in a message, its safest reading is a technical glyph share or a fragment of a display layout.

Text symbol
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teletext symbol · minitel symbol · terminal graphics · block graphics · semigraphics · quarter block · triangle block · retro computer
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 🭭 means

It is one tile in a mosaic of text graphics.

Teletext, a UK broadcast service for text pages, was developed in the early 1970s and used block graphics. The character tables also include this tile in Teletext and Minitel. 🭭 filled the upper triangular quarter of a character cell; adjoining tiles could build page graphics.

Unicode describes semigraphics as pieces that fit together to simulate a low-resolution display. That is why its place beside other tiles matters: 🭭 identifies one shape and, in a sequence, can form part of a larger picture. Unicode kept the repertoire so old character data could be converted into and back out of Unicode.

Why does 🭭 look different across fonts?

**The font supplies its shape, so support and drawing can vary.

A font without this glyph may show a missing-character box. Supported fonts can draw the triangle with slightly different proportions, even though the encoded character is the same.

Niche and technical, with a connection to text graphics and retro-computing.

What it means when someone sends it to you

3 readings
Alone in a message
A technical glyph share; the symbol shows one tile, not a complete display layout.
Beside other block fragments
One tile in a larger low-resolution mosaic or terminal-style drawing.
In converted Teletext or Minitel data
A preserved source character whose shape belongs to the original text-graphics layout.

Don't confuse it with

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🭬
Left Triangular One Quarter Block
shares “block”, “one”, “quarter”, “triangular”
🭮
Right Triangular One Quarter Block
shares “block”, “one”, “quarter”, “triangular”
🭯
Lower Triangular One Quarter Block
shares “block”, “one”, “quarter”, “triangular”
🮂
Upper One Quarter Block
shares “block”, “one”, “quarter”, “upper”

Combination ideas

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A deliberately arranged three-tile fragment suggesting an edge in a retro terminal mosaic.

Questions people ask

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Why does 🭭 appear as a box?

That box usually means the active font lacks support for 🭭. A font that supports this Unicode character can draw it.

How to type 🭭

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1FB6D, 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 triangular one quarter block”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fb6d, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🭭
CSS
\1FB6D
Unicode input
In an editor or operating system that accepts Unicode code-point input, enter U+1FB6D. Historical Teletext or Minitel source bytes use different encodings and need conversion.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🭭
HTML hex
🭭
CSS content
content: "\1FB6D";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AD%AD
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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

𜰀𜰁𜰂𜰃𜰄𜰅𜰆𜰇𜰈𜰉𜰊𜰋