What 🭰 means
It marks part of one screen tile. Each character cell is one grid slot; 🭰 fills its leftmost eighth. Nearby block pieces join into pictures.
A 2018 Unicode source table lists it in Commodore PET/VIC-20 and C64/C128 character sets and in Teletext, a television text service. The PET appeared in 1977; these systems used character cells as drawing tiles. Unicode’s 1991 chart already showed the same fill as .
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 🭰 show as a box?
A missing-character box means the font or terminal cannot draw 🭰. The text still contains the character.
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How to type or find 🭰
- Search it as
- block element · text art · terminal graphics · Commodore graphics · Teletext graphics
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
🭰CSS
\1FB70How to type 🭰
In an editor with hexadecimal Unicode entry, enter 1FB70 and run its conversion command; keystrokes vary by app.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🭰
HTML hex
🭰
CSS content
content: "\1FB70";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AD%B0
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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.